I know, I promised, but before delving further into the view modes,

lets pause to check out another important feature of Scrivener that will
save us from having to jump around so much between folders and
instructions. The chances are that from time to time you are going to want
to split the editor so that you can view two parts of the same document, or
two entirely different documents, alongside one another. So lets do that
now. Go to View > Layout > Split Horizontally. Alternatively, click on the
button in the right of the header view above (the square with the
horizontal line through its middle):

Vertical and horizontal split buttons.

Suddenly, this document is displayed in two panes, which is great

when you need to refer back to an earlier place in the file, but dont want to
lose the ability to keep typing in the current location. Note that through
the Layout menu, you can also switch to Vertical Split, or use No Split to
get rid of the split altogether.
All well and good, but we dont want to be limited to viewing only
one document at a time, do we? We can do that in any word processor
worth its salt (whatever that means), after all. And naturally, were not.
Click on any document in the binder, and it will be shown in the editor
that currently has the focus. You can tell which editor currently has the
focus because when there is a split, the header bar of the focused editor
turns blue.
In the binder, click ThisIsBuzzAldrin from inside the Research
folder. ThisIsBuzzAldrin is an audio file, so you wont see much other
than a media control bar in the lower part of the top pane (actually, that
audio file is the beginning of the coolest phone message I ever picked up;
sadly, the message was not for me).
Now you can play the audio file in the top pane whilst typing in this
bottom pane. You can control the media file using the keyboard shortcuts
defined in the View > Media menu. Ctrl+Enter will play or pause the file,
for instancewithout you having to click outside of this text. These
shortcuts are very useful for transcription work, or for referring to a video
file while writing.

But of course, you can use the split view to view any two documents
in Scrivener alongside one another. The snazziness of this feature should
immediately be apparent: you can refer to another text, PDF, image or
multimedia document in one view while typing in another. You could hide
the toolbar, the header and footer views and the binder and just have the
two documents side-by-side while you work.
Make sure this bottom pane has the focus (click in it if you are not
sure) so that its header view is blue, and click on Step 9 so that it opens
here.