Cycling through open documents

[primrose]

I may be misremembering, or I may be remembering something that only
happens in Winword. But I had thought that, where you switch from
document A to document B with Cmd-F6, Word remembers that you were
previously looking at document A; so, the next time you hit Cmd-F6, the
first document you come to is A. If this did indeed happen, it doesn't
happen any more: I have to cycle through C, D, E etc before I get back
to A. This is irritating if I am mostly looking at A and B, and only
occasionally at C etc. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[primrose]

I may be misremembering, or I may be remembering something that only
happens in Winword. But I had thought that, where you switch from
document A to document B with Cmd-F6, Word remembers that you were
previously looking at document A; so, the next time you hit Cmd-F6, the
first document you come to is A. If this did indeed happen, it doesn't
happen any more: I have to cycle through C, D, E etc before I get back
to A. This is irritating if I am mostly looking at A and B, and only
occasionally at C etc. Am I doing something wrong?

Forgot to say that I'm using v.11.2 with OS 10.3.9.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Try using command-tilde (actually just command-', no need for a shift
key). That's a system shortcut, works to cycle windows in all apps, and
I think OS X re-adjusts what's "Next" on the fly. If I'm wrong there,
adding the shift key will reverse the order.
(cmd-tab works the same way to cycle thru applications)

I've never used cmd-F6 myself.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi primrose -

Either Cmd+Shift+F6 or Opt+Shift+F6 can be used to "toggle to previous
window". Cmd+F6 toggles to "next window, but "next" will vary depending on
the sequence in which the windows are currently arranged.

What may be deceiving is that *any* of the 3 shortcuts will toggle you
between the docs if you only have 2 open at a time. With 3 or more the Shift
key makes a big difference. You might play a round with it a bit by just
creating 3 or 4 blank docs & cycling through in both directions.

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

 

[primrose]

Daiya and Bob,

Thanks very much. I hadn't thought of adding the shift key so as to get
the previous window. This proves (a) that I am very stupid, but also (b)
that in some past life I must have got used to toggling between the
documents A and B without using the shift key and without getting
documents C etc. So I am still wondering whether Macword 2004 is
different in this respect from the older versions of Winword. Doesn't
matter.

Actually I use Cmd-` myself, but I didn't mention that because I
couldn't find any mention of it in the Word keyboard shortcuts and
couldn't remember how I came to start using it!

primrose