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Simple UI question
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I apologize in advance for asking such a stupid question...
Other than Expose, is there a quick and easy way in OS X to directly select or click between different windows within the same application?
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You can click on any window to bring it forward, yeah. You can also hit command-` to cycle through windows in most applications (Photoshop being the only exception that I can think of).
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Apple - Tab cycles through applications, Apple - ` through windows in an app.
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Thanks! That's what I was looking for...
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Originally Posted by peeb 
Apple - Tab cycles through applications, Apple - ` through windows in an app.
Which for some crazy reason does not work with the Finder 
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Originally Posted by Fusion
Which for some crazy reason does not work with the Finder
Really? It works for me... 
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Works here... even includes the Desktop in the cycle.
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Fwiw, control-F4 and control-shift-F4 toggles through all visible windows in all apps.
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Originally Posted by JKT
Fwiw, control-F4 and control-shift-F4 toggles through all visible windows in all apps.
This doesn't appear to work on my MBP. F4 is tied to the "lower the volume level" control.
My opinion is that it's a failing of the OS X UI in that it does not provide an immediately apparent mechanism for switching between windows within an application. A novice user would have to know about either Expose or the keyboard shortcut if they wanted to avoid minimizing or moving windows all over the place.
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Originally Posted by Kadarin
My opinion is that it's a failing of the OS X UI in that it does not provide an immediately apparent mechanism for switching between windows within an application.
The "immediately apparent mechanism" for switching between windows is using the Window menu.
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Originally Posted by Kadarin
This doesn't appear to work on my MBP. F4 is tied to the "lower the volume level" control.
You need to fold in the fn key to get normal F-key behaviors on a laptop. (You can reverse this in the System Preferences keyboard pane, so that fn-F4 is volume down and F4 is just F4.)
Originally Posted by Kadarin
My opinion is that it's a failing of the OS X UI in that it does not provide an immediately apparent mechanism for switching between windows within an application. A novice user would have to know about either Expose or the keyboard shortcut if they wanted to avoid minimizing or moving windows all over the place.
Well, some might argue the Window menu is blindingly obvious. But tell me: What do you think could be done to make Expose more apparent?
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Click and hold, or right click, an icon in the dock for a list of its windows.
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
The "immediately apparent mechanism" for switching between windows is using the Window menu.
Or the not-quite-so immediately apparent but still quite obvious way is the contextual menu for the application's icon in the Dock.
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