Panel set up in Mint 18.3

Batman you will want to go into your main menu/preferences/systems settings.Right click on it and select Add to panel. You find most of the things you want to set up here

I just needed to install a Separator and a panel launcher

I totally forgot about that.
You can choose your workspaces to show screens or names.
So if you name them:

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Then all you will see is numbers.

Also play around with Ctrl+Alt+ArrowKeys
There are some pretty need settings and ways to move your windows around to different workspaces