Alternating between Word windows

[Asher]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

I'm having trouble alternating between the word documents I have open at any one time. I never used to have this problem, and it has just happened recently (might have something to do with me fiddling around with templates). It still works on Safari and other programs, it's just word that's problematic. I'm talking about the shortcut of the apple key and the ` key by the way.
Anyway, any ideas? It's getting really annoying having to bring all windows to the front and then select separately.

 

[John McGhie]

Command ~ to cycle between windows, of Command + Option + F6.

Cheers

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

I'm having trouble alternating between the word documents I have open at any
one time. I never used to have this problem, and it has just happened recently
(might have something to do with me fiddling around with templates). It still
works on Safari and other programs, it's just word that's problematic. I'm
talking about the shortcut of the apple key and the ` key by the way.
Anyway, any ideas? It's getting really annoying having to bring all windows to
the front and then select separately.

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[CyberTaz]

The Command+` stroke (aka Command+~) is an OS X universal keystroke
assignment not specific to Word. As John pointed out you can also use
Option+F6 or Command+F6 which are Word-specific. [You might also want to
take a look at the keyboard shortcuts subject in Word Help for a number of
other navigation keystrokes if you aren't already familiar with them.]

As for your current problem I'd first try re-launching Word or restarting
your Mac. If that doesn't dismiss it, perhaps you've made some sort of
keyboard/language settings changes that are pre-empting ⌘+`?

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[The New guy]

Version: 2004

The Command+` stroke (aka Command+~) is an OS X universal keystroke
assignment not specific to Word. As John pointed out you can also use
Option+F6 or Command+F6 which are Word-specific. [You might also want to
take a look at the keyboard shortcuts subject in Word Help for a number of
other navigation keystrokes if you aren't already familiar with them.]

What's with all the top posting in this newsgroup?
For switching between windows within an app, stick to the universal OS X
one: Command_` That way you don't have to learn a new one for each
app. Its easy to use with one hand, unlike the Command_F6 one.

 

[John McGhie]

What's with all the top posting in this newsgroup?

For most of the audience (more than 90 per cent) this is not a newsgroup
it's a web forum.

There's a Database application that sucks the content of the web forum in
and spits it out as an NNTP stream. It also takes the NNTP stream in,
compares the posts with what it has, and fires the new ones into the web
forum.

We are all volunteers in here (we're all fellow customers) and right now, we
are really stretched trying to get through the volume of requests. Tonight,
I have to try to attend to 300 posts.

If you try to get through 300 posts between dinner time and bed-time, you
will realise that if one has to pause to scroll or open each one, one will
probably just pass it by.

A rule of thumb I use when we're busy in here is "If the new text is not
visible in the preview pane, I just skip the post."

So: Some of us deeply appreciate top posting

Hope this helps

For switching between windows within an app, stick to the universal OS X
one: Command_` That way you don't have to learn a new one for each
app. Its easy to use with one hand, unlike the Command_F6 one.

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Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Phillip Jones]

Hey John agree with you on the top posting.

In fact this server is unusual in that it allows Top posting, Bottom
Posting, and intermingled. Provided once a Thread and the first response
start one method everyone stick to that method throughout the entire thread.

Now over at the Mozilla. org newsgroups and run by a bunch of old
stuffed shirts most whom got started using 150 baud Modem on a a POTS
line and Bulletin Boards that started out bottom posting only. I got on
at the tail end of the Bulletin Board crazy and 300 Baud modems. I
railed against bottom post as a time waster, then. I still think its a
Time waster. But, the rules are set in welded stainless steel. So I do
as follows if in Roman do as the Romans.

It's refreshing to be in groups that don't give a rats patootie about
posting styles as long as once was started in a thread it continued.

it the quality and and quantity of the the advice/opinions given that's
important. no following some rule some old codger came up with to make
them self important.

The subject line of the post should be the question and the part the
originator post should amplify and explain the problem. Once that done,
comes each succeeding reply, you just read the latest reply to see
what's the newest info.

For most of the audience (more than 90 per cent) this is not a newsgroup
it's a web forum.

There's a Database application that sucks the content of the web forum in
and spits it out as an NNTP stream. It also takes the NNTP stream in,
compares the posts with what it has, and fires the new ones into the web
forum.

We are all volunteers in here (we're all fellow customers) and right now, we
are really stretched trying to get through the volume of requests. Tonight,
I have to try to attend to 300 posts.

If you try to get through 300 posts between dinner time and bed-time, you
will realise that if one has to pause to scroll or open each one, one will
probably just pass it by.

A rule of thumb I use when we're busy in here is "If the new text is not
visible in the preview pane, I just skip the post."

So: Some of us deeply appreciate top posting

Hope this helps

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[Asher]

thanks for all the feedback. The problem actually somehow resolved itself- I think it was just an unusual one-off. I'll keep your comments in mind if it happens again.

Thanks again, keep up the good work.