Toggle two documents

[Carl L Cooper]

In version 5.1a of Word, there was a command that would enable you to switch
back and forth between two documents (I think it was called ³Previous
Window²) with a single keystroke. Is there any way to do this with Word
Office 2004? The current command (Next Window) simply rotates you through
all the open documents.

Thanks,

Carl

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Carl -

Try OPTION+SHIFT+F6 if you¹re currently using OPTION+F6. Or, if you¹re
accustomed to using COMMAND+F6 you may prefer COMMAND+SHIFT+F6.

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

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi Carl -

Try OPTION+SHIFT+F6 if you¹re currently using OPTION+F6. Or, if you¹re
accustomed to using COMMAND+F6 you may prefer COMMAND+SHIFT+F6.

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

and don't forget the same trick that works Mac wide in any application,
not just in Word:-
cmd-~ to cycle forward, and cmd-shift-~ to go in the other direction.
You do need to remember which one to use from each of the two windows,
but it works well in practice.

A related good trick is to cmd-m all but the top two really interesting
documents into the dock. Then cmd-~ does the swap of those two without
thinking.
If you have your Mac's full keyboard nav swtched on, you can get the
others back from the keyboard too.
Word makes that pleasant by numbering its minimised dock items, so if I
had a document called "How to be an anally retentive keyboard anorak"
minimised in the dock, hitting ctrl-M W space reveals the list. Then
typing the matching number brings it back to the top in that pleasant
genie-like way.
(I can't stand all that function key nonsense, so I reassigned ctrl-F2
to ctrl-M to put focus on menu bar)