Is there a way to switch between one document to the other using a keyboard shortcut?

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  1. jovanpuyo

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    Hi guys!

    Need your help in switching views between two similar document types on a Mac (e.g., two MS Office Word documents). Using windows, you can just press CTRL-Tab (or something like that) to switch from one Word document to the other, but on a Mac, when I press Command-Tab, it switches from one application to the other.

    The solution that I came up with is using Expose but I'm still wishing if there were any secret keyboard shortcuts out there.

    Been trying to figure this out for a long time but I can't seem to find a better solution. I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who knows a better way.

    Thanks!
     
    #1 jovanpuyo, Apr 29, 2009
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    Is there a way to switch between one document to the other using a keyboard short

    Isn't spaces made for that?
     
    #2 jaijin, Apr 29, 2009
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    Re: Is there a way to switch between one document to the other using a keyboard

    Apple Key + ` (open single quote - below the tilde key)
     
    #3 bacchus_3, Apr 29, 2009
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    jovan! command + ~ just like what bacchus said :)
     
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    aha! this command + ~ thing is much better than switching spaces. Thanks!!! :D
     
    #5 andiealbino, Apr 30, 2009
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    alternatively you can try this...
    on the older macs you pressed f10. on the newer macs you can press fn+f10 and achieve the same result. this effectively shows you all the instances from the same application (as against all open applications when you press either fn+f9 or f3). you then just click on the instance you're interested in. HTH
     
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    Salamat sa lahat!
     
    #7 jovanpuyo, Apr 30, 2009
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    thanks! this is so much better and faster :)
     
    #8 dni, Apr 30, 2009
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