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How to 'toggle' quickly between Pages documents on a Mac?

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megandraper · 19/09/2012 09:03

A bit like using command + tab to toggle between applications.

Don't want to faff around clicking on 'Window' and then the other open document when I need to keep switching between Pages documents.

I saw an online help thing which said there is a shortcut for this, but it is different in different countries. I am in the UK.

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NetworkGuy · 19/09/2012 10:45

Don't have 'Pages' myself but have used F10 to see all the windows of Firefox that I have open and then click on the one I want to bring that to the front.

OneOfMyTurnsComingOn · 19/09/2012 10:46

If you click and hold on the pages icon at the bottom, it shows all the docs you have open. If I find another way I'll let you know.

NetworkGuy · 19/09/2012 10:51

Of course, if they're less than full screen in size, you could 'toggle' from one to the other and back by having them on the left and right halves of the screen and just click on the 'mostly hidden' one to switch :)

Helps if you've a big screen of course, but am now interested to know how to do this the way I can with ALT+Tab on windows to jump from window to window whichever application created those windows.

Jumping application to application has some benefits on the iMac but I tend to have a dozen windows open in Firefox and each with multiple open tabs (!)

megandraper · 19/09/2012 13:08

Thanks for replies.

Mac has a thing called 'expose' which is like the F10 function you mention, networkguy, or your pages icon, oneofmy - I am using that at the moment, but it is a bit clunky - I would like to just keep flicking quickly between my notes in one Page document and my report in the other document.

Yes, might try the partly-minimised option, good thought, but would really like a version of the ALT+Tab (CMD+Tab in Mac) to just toggle through open documents like toggling through windows/applications. Can't understand why there's not a way of doing this, surely lots of people must want it!

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NetworkGuy · 19/09/2012 15:33

Maybe Steve Jobs decreed there should be no multitasking (by users) that made the Mac look in any way like Windows :)

It would be something I'd use, but Yes, you've found a shortcoming (one of perhaps many) which in the main, Apple users would not necessarily consider a shortcoming, and would come to some other method to 'work around' this.

megandraper · 19/09/2012 16:18

I do love my Mac for all sorts of other reasons, but yes, definitely a shortcoming!

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