Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between open documents?

Hi Floyd! Although this is an old thread, it is actual for me as I have just decided to search for the same question after years of suffering the same issue with word for mac. I see that although Peter´s comment is correct, the one´s that use different language keyboards (from English), such as myself that have an american keyboard set to spanish (and thus the key location of the tilde-"`" sign is not apparent) cannot utilize this shorcut. The way around this is pretty simple - you have to open System Preferences (under the apple logo on the top menu), then click on Keyboard and on the window that appears go to the Shortcuts tab, make sure that the "Move Focus to Next Window" option is enabled. You can see on the left side of the option, effectively which key combination will do the trick (mine is command + "`", but i´m guessing other languages might not have this specific combination as the tilde sign might not be present in languages such as finnish, german or chinese, guessing). Now the only question is being able to locate where in you keyboard that sign is hidden. In my case, spanish option on an american/english mbp keyboard, the tilde sign is under the right bracket key on the right side of the keyboard, i know this from using it to add accents to spanish vocals, but you could also look for it in the Keyboard Viewer under the Input Sources tab (also in keyboard preferences). Unfortunately for some strange reason, i find my Keyboard Viewer not working interactively (showing signs to keys relationship as i press the keys) under Mac El Capitan iOS. Hope this clears the issue and helps people with the same question. Cheers. Demian

Hi ilffv,

There are (at least) two Spanish keyboard layouts.

One labelled "Spanish"

The other labelled Spanish - ISO

Command-` switches between open documents within an application.

Regards,

Barry

No, there isn't. you can't even set your own shor cut keys as you don't know what the documents will be named. Normally you can add short cuts keys but only for those menus options that already exist but your documents will change. I have searched for the answer earlier as I also want it.

There is in the Pages Help menu an option for Keyboard shorcuts but nothing is mentioned ther about changing document windows.

command ~ (the tilde key, above the tab key) is the universal switch between documents key on the Mac.

Peter

Can't be universal as it doesn't work with swedish keyboard. Which keyboards does it work with?

As usual you are right fruhulda and I failed to detail that that is for the English, American, Australian keyboards.

But we always have problems with keyboard shortcuts for the non-Anglo world.

Peter

Actually, the shortcut is Command with the grave accent, which I believe is Command and Shift and acute accent on a Swedish keyboard. That works with a Swedish keyboard on my (American) English system. I didn't try switching my system language.

(On an English keyboard, the tilde is actually Shift and grave accent, but the shortcut does not use the Shift key. However, since the tilde is probably much more recognizable than the accent, the shortcut is usually called "Shift tilde.")

Jeff, I did try that earlier and it didn't work. If I the keyboard to US English I could use Cms + ~

Since it's a system function rather than an application function, could you look in Finder help & see what that says, fruhulda?

I did look in the Mac help and it only tells how to switch between applications and not window though the title is "Switching between applications and windows".

See "Shortcuts for windows" fruhulda

Peter

Yes, found the information but the shortcut doesn't work. It says Cmd + Shift + ~ but to get the Tilde you have to hold dwon Alt key and if you also press Shift you get ^ instead which is probably why it doesn't work. Nor does it work without the Shft key.

I now that the shortcut depends on your keyboard layout.

For that reason, I would like to ask if someone knows what is the keyboard shortcut to switch between several open documents in Pages 5 on a (Western or International) SPANISH KEYBOARD, please.

By the way, the ~ key doesn't exist in the Spanish keyboard.

I would really appreciate it for the kind of work I'm doing.

Thanks in advance and sorry if this has already been solved in another discussion.

ilffv, I had the same question. I started pressing key combinations, and I found the way for a Spanish keyboard:

cmd + `

` is located next to the p key