Making Windows Active When you want to work with a window, you must make it active or give it input focus. By default an active window moves to the front of the stack of overlapping windows, and its window frame is highlighted. Any keystrokes you type appear in this window. When you make another window active, the new window is given input focus. Only one window can have input focus at a time. To make a window active: 1. Point to a location in the window or window frame. 2. Click MB1. Note To make a window active from an icon, double-click MB1 on the icon.