Hah!
Something we think different on and you have not already have better explained than lazy me would try!

I try the approach of having no desktop at all (Antix Linux allows you to choose between different window managers and desktop offerings) by using different VMs for different tasks - bimonthly POP3 VM, browsing VM, paperwork VM for Excel and Word, similar one under Wine with vfp9 added to Office97, Tax VMs , for clients a VM either set up for remote or on-site work, throwaway testing VMs. Some of these still on Windows, as anything updating often on windows is a PITA and worry monster on WINE - but there no icons, just a menu.

Works great for me as the tendency to fire up something new must be weighed against starting another VM, leading to more concentrated work ;-)

Office docs in source control - without text comparison - another thing I might switch to earlier concepts. I grok about try to switch over all texts to markdown (which is nothing but text, easy to version control) if I can find a way or editor to support half a dozen paragraph fonts logically besides a document font - WYSIWYG or WYSIWYM at best - going back to MS Word for DOS style editing and layout seems awful, but document version control on text level is REALLY tempting.... I really only need few page layouts for company and private letters, which should work out in Markdown plus perhaps a jpg. Of old Word97 I use perhaps less than 10% and printouts have to be PDF in any case...

>I've run dual 23/24" monitors for a long time. Years ago I looked briefly at multiple desktops in Windows 10 but didn't have a use for them.
>A few weeks ago I had to work with 3 clients simultaneously, each with multiple documents plus browsers and remote desktops open. I was going crazy trying to juggle everything on a single desktop, even with dual monitors.
>Being able to separate the clients into separate desktops was a lifesaver. In that situation I ended up running 4 desktops, one for each client plus another one for my company with open invoices, Outlook etc.
>I haven't had much use for the Task View button on the Task bar which is enabled by default so I hide it. Instead I use keyboard shortcuts:
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>Ctrl + WindowsLogoKey (WLK) + D --> new desktop
>Ctrl + WLK + Right/Left arrow keys --> navigate between desktops
>Ctrl + WLK + F4 --> delete a desktop when you're finished with it
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>All of the above operations are basically instantaneous so there's little loss of productivity.
>The only "gotcha" I've hit so far is if an app on one of the desktops is capable of "eating" the navigation keys Ctrl+WLK+Right/Left, in that case the desktops are not switched. For example, Remote Desktop Connection eats that key combination, so if you have an RDC session open, and it has the focus, and you press that key combination, RDC passes it through to the remote computer. You need to change the focus to another monitor or another app which doesn't eat the key combination for it to work.
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>I imagine this isn't news to many but it's something worth knowing about for anyone who needs to manage a lot of docs or apps simultaneously.