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Re: keyboard shortcut to switch windows

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  • Subject: [mg115161] Re: keyboard shortcut to switch windows
  • From: Xah Lee <xahlee at gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 03:55:33 -0500 (EST)

Hi Murray,

thank you!

I looked and looked. Apparently, the documentation of version 7 on 
keyboard list misses this one, but it works.

  Xah

On 2011-01-02 9:38 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> I don't recall whether this worked in Mathematica 7, but it does in 
> Mathematica 8, at least under Windows:  Ctrl + F6 cycles among open 
> notebook windows, including open Documentation Center windows.
>
> And you don't have to experiment to find this out. In the 
> Documentation Center, search, e.g., for "shortcut key". One of the 
> search results will be "Keyboard Shortcut Listing". And you'll find 
> that shortcut, and lots of others, there, too.
>
> Of course fingers always hovering above a keyboard can stand some 
> relief, and reaching for a mouse and just clicking in some other 
> window isn't that hard or time-consuming!
>
> On 1/2/2011 4:57 AM, Xah Lee wrote:
>> is there a keyboard shortcut to switch windows in Mathematica?
>>
>> am using version 7 on Windows.
>>
>> (i did some looking but didn't find one)
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>>   Xah Lee
>>
>


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