Beginner - again!

@tanyast423, I'm not sure which icon you are referring to, but if you are in the Organizer, there is a button to take you to the Editor.  Similarly, if you are in the Editor, there is a button that takes you back to the Organizer, as shown in my screenshot below:

While you are in the Editor, it is possible to view files that have been selected in the Organizer via the Editor's Photo Bin.  In the following screenshot, you will see that I have only one file open in the Editor, but the Photo Bin is displaying thumbnails of other files that I have selected in the Organizer grid.  To do this choose Show Files selected in Organizer from the dropdown menu that I have highlighted.

The Photo Bin will also show those files in tools such as the Create>Photo Collage dialog which allows you to drag files up from the Photo Bin to the photo placeholders.

However, it is also possible to drag and drop files directly from the Organizer to the Editor.

Hope this helps. 

@tanyast423 , I'm not exactly sure what you are asking.  The short answer is that the Editor and the Organizer are two different programs.  So, no, you cannot see them in the same window.  But there are various tools in Elements where the Organizer grid can be viewed from the Editor window. 

If you give us more details about what problem you are trying to solve, we can perhaps be a little more helpful.

Please let us know which Elements you are having problems with. Someone will be along to move this post to the appropriate product forum, where you are more likely to get an answer to your question.

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