Nick from the UK asked,
I’m often working with several InDesign documents open. How can I quickly and easily shuttle between them without having them each tiled on my screen?
I have a feeling you are going to say it’s a customised keyboard shortcut, but having printed out the list as you advised in an early podcast, I just can’t seem to see it.
There’s an OS keyboard command for flipping through open docs in any current program … not an InDesign-specific one.
For Mac OS X, it’s Command-` (the ` is the key with the tilde on the upper left of the keyboard).
For Windows XP, the usual keyboard shortcut, Ctrl-F6, works fine, but you might find that Ctrl-` is easier to reach. (Maybe this is a custom keyboard shortcut for InDesign Windows – I can’t get it to work in any other program.)
For those of you wondering what Nick meant when he said, “…without having them each tiled on my screen,” I think he was referring to the Window > Arrange > Tile command, or perhaps Mac OS X’s Expose feature, which can do a similar thing in any program. (F10 is the default key for temporarily tiling all doc windows belonging to the active application.)
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This article was first published on July 31, 2006
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