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Cycling through all your windows
In response to last week's tip, several subscribers mentioned that you can also use Alt+Tab to cycle through your open windows. Alt+Tab has been around since the days of Windows 3.1 and used to be the only way we had of switching between windows. I'm sure that like me, some of you worked with Windows 3.1.
When the Taskbar came along in Windows 95, Alt+Tab became less prominent but it can still be useful as a quick way of switching between windows.
So what is the difference between Alt+Tab and Ctrl+F6? Let's say you have seven windows open, including three Word documents, and you are currently looking at one of the Word windows. Ctrl+F6 will cycle between the three Word windows while Alt+Tab will cycle between all seven windows.
As with Ctrl+F6, Shift reverses the order of moving through the windows. So a mouse-free way to repetitively switch between a couple of windows is to use Alt+Tab, followed by Shift+Alt+Tab.
Any questions, please let me know.
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