How to switch quickly between Pages documents?

Hi!
Your posting has been moved from the Appleworks forum, a forum dedicated to the application AppleWorks, a discontinued application. You are now in the right forum for Pages.

Now to your question. There isn't any short cut keys for moving between pages windows/documents in Pages. Nor can you assign your your own hot key. 😟

Here is an earlier discussion on this matter _ http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12865861_

I hope you have found that you in the menu Window can choose which document to be at the top.

This has been discussed on several occasions. Because the key combination varies with different keyboard layouts, the best option is to search Mac Help on your Mac for "cycle" without the quotes. This Knowledge Base article has the information for US keyboard layouts.

The combination ⌘ ⇧ ` (Command shiftgravè) is an OS X function & works in most applications for me, including non-Apple applications.

Does it work in Pages, too?

fruhulda wrote:
Does it work in Pages, too?

Yes.
command-tilde rotates through an applications open windows.
shift-command-tilde does the same, but reverses the direction of rotation.

Regards,
Barry

Lucky you. I can't make it work on the Swedish keyboard.

Fruhulda,

Try F10. It's an Exposé hot key (the others are F9 and F11) that shows all open windows in the front application. Clicking one brings it to the front.
F9 does the same for all open windows in all applications.
F11 hides all open windows to let you see the Desktop.

You can also set mouse actions to activate the Expsé actions using the Exposé and Dashboard control panel (in Tiger, may be different in Leopard and Snow Leopard.

Regards,
Barry

I don't like Exposé. I just haven't found the right key combination for rotating Pages documents windows. The supplied one in the Help doesn't work. It is just a translations from the English Help.

Maybe you could try multiple Spaces and have each Open Pages document in a different Space. Then you can just Control+arrow key between them.

Would that work for your needs?

Adam

I found how to do it with the swedish keyboard. I opened System preferences > keyboard >hot keys > keyboard and text input. Here I found the hot key Ctrl + F9 and as I mostly use my MBP I had to add the Fn key. Works a charm in Pages. I which the help files were adapted for swedish keyboard when in swedish!!

fruhulda wrote:
I which the help files were adapted for swedish keyboard when in swedish!!

We can't get that because the User Guides are translated by beings which never used the application.
They receive an English text and they must translate it in an other language.

I'm accustomed to that for years and I would be surprised if something changes in this area.
As far as I know, nobody in Apple France saw the localized iWork '09 before the day it was introduced.
I was asked to search oddities *_after the delivery_*

Some oddities available in iWork '08 French version are always here in iWork '09 and I'm not sure that they will be gone when we will get the next version.

It was the same for AppleWorks which I beta tested two times.
Tests where made upon the US version and all of us discovered the localized versions when they where delivered. In the Help, every examples of formulas where using the comma as parameters separators when the correct one was the semi-colon.
For sure, it's ridiculous but it's the way foreign customers are treated by Apple.
I'm remembering that I edited a resource dedicated to samples of functions.
With the edited resource, Swiss users where able to use the "insert functions" feature with the separator matching their system settings.
The problem is the same with iWork.

The delivered French version inserts functions with semi-colons between parameters, even is the user setting is "Swiss French" which use the decimal period and require the comma as separator.
Same behavior with Deutsch and Italian.

But not is completely bad.

I never succeed when I requested correct treatment of "curly quotes" in AppleWorks.
For info, the correct structure is *_« caractères chevrons »_* (the first space and the last one are required, at least for French of France).
I started to request them when I start using iWork '06.
They wheren't introduced by the different updaters but, hosannah, they are available in iWork '08.
In fact, we got only the quotes, not the required spaces.
So I requested again the spaces.
They wheren't introduced by the different updaters but, hosannah, they are available in iWork '09.

I remember that I wrote to Apple that I was surprised to see that their staff of engineers appeared to be less efficient than the single developer which was delivering Bean.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 14 janvier 2011 18:47:14