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bjb.butler

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Specifically, I'm talking about Microsoft Word. I often have multiple windows open and need to switch between them frequently. At the moment, I'm keeping them in full-screen mode and using the four finger swipe gesture to move between them. It works okay, but if you swipe to other applications, then Command + Tab back to Word, it'll mess up the order of the full screen apps, so you might have Safari or iTunes in between your two Word documents.

Command + Tab cycles through the applications you have running, not individual windows. Is there a way (either built-in or with a third-party app) to replicate the Alt + Tab shortcut on windows, where it cycles through all open windows, regardless of application?

Thanks in advance
 
For frontmost app, CMD-` or CMD-SHIFT-` to select in reverse, will cycle through its windows. But, I don't know of one that does this regardless of app. I would think using CMD-tab to get back to the app, then the CMD-` would work.

('`' is the '~' key)
 
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Just to make sure - are you aware of the second four finger gesture, the one that shows only one app's windows? (doesn't work in fullscreen)
 
i don't know if this helps but i think i do the same thing for Logic- same application running on different windows.

I've set up in system preferences, keyboard, shortcuts, mission control and set up keyboard short cuts option key 1, option key 2 etc to switch to screen 1,2 etc etc

hope that works for ya
 

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