How to resize a window?

I am looking for a keyboard shortcut to resize a window. There got to be one?
Why? I copied the entire iTunes folder from my MacPro to my MacBook Pro. Worked just fine except that the iTunes window on my MacBook was so tall that I couldn't get to the resize handle in the bottom right corner.
Had to run iTunes on my MacPro, make the window smaller, and copy the entire iTunes folder again to my MacBook. There's got to be a better way?
Thanks for your help.
Olaf

Try holding the Option key and clicking on the Zoom button. Anyway, if I have the iTunes window filling my big monitor, then drag to my smaller monitor and Option click the zoom, the main window resizes to fit the smaller monitor.
Francine
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