Abstract: Systems and methods for managing documents in a software application and for viewing an image of a document are disclosed herein. A method for viewing an image comprises a step of creating reduced-size images, hereinafter referred to as thumbnail images, of documents displayed in a document window. For text documents, the thumbnail images are miniature views of the first page of the text documents. When the thumbnail images have been created, the method further comprises a step of converting the software application from a normal operating mode to a magnifying mode. During the magnifying mode, one of the thumbnail images may be selected and magnified to reveal the contents of the document. The selected thumbnail image may be magnified without opening the document.