Prem El 7: Previewing individual video tracks

Hi All,
I am new to Prem Elements 7 and have been spending a lot of time on my first project.
Some simple things are holding me up and I can't resolve with the Help centre.
I have 3 video tracks stacked in the timeline.
A key problem is how to select and preview in the monitor panel each video track.
As default, the monitor will only preview the top video track in the stack. So for me, it will preview track 3.
But I want to be able to switch between video tracks and view the content of each track in the preview monitor to help with editing decisions.
Can anyone help please?
Many thanks.

Mike
You can do as SG suggests in that you double click the video clip on Video Track 1, 2, or 3 to bring up its Preview Window.
But, consider the following when and if applicable:
a. staggering the clips of Video Track 1, 2, 3 (train arrangement) and then clicking above the Timeline to move/direct the Timeline Indicator to the video clip location to view that clip in the Edit Mode Monitor.
b. if you wanted a before/after, doing a split screen effect where you drag the Crop video effect (Effects/Video Effects/Transform/Crop) into the clips and use the Edit Efffect to crop the clips to display side by side in the Edit Mode Monitor....if find, more space to do that with 16:9 project.
As has been stated, if there are no transparencies in the clip in Video Track 3 and you are not adjusting Opacity, all that you are going to see is what is on Video Track 3 in the Edit Mode Monitor.
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