Quick Tip: Quickly Switch Between Open Tabbed Documents
Tips and Tricks | July 7th, 2010
I’m sure some of you already know about this, but if you don’t, you can save some time while working tabbed documents in Illustrator CS4 and CS5. Press Command (Control on Windows) and the ~ (the tilde key) to switch between open tabbed Illustrator documents. Pretty nifty!
This is very handy. I always though that this was only possible (at least by default) on PC with Ctrl+tab.
Thanks
Wow! Thanks for a really great tip!
It’s a sin that on italian keyboards there is not any tilde key …
Same for spanish keyboard here… tilde key don´t exists (i think this key is only for US keyboards). Anyway i never found tabs in Adobe application useful, instead i prefer the old school method: simply switch off tabs feature via illustrator/ preferences/ user interface/ open documents as tabs. Then in Mac preferences panel, under keyboard, just search for the “focus on next application window” field (under menu, keyboard and text) and assign a shortcut if the default option does’t fit you. And there is now you can easily switch between open documents!.
The best part of this is that it can be used in all mac applications, not only Adobe ones. And remember, if you want this working on Indesign, Photoshop, etc be aware of first switch off the tab features so that the system could “see” multiple documents opened not only one single tabbed document.
even after having tabs now, i still accidentally use mac’s expose (show all windows) by habit…
This tab works with most OS X applications. Let you cycle through the application windows. I just wish there was a way to make the tabs separate in Expose.
Isn’t there an expose setting that only shows the windows for the current app? I could swear there was. I would check but I’m currently on my work PC… (yuck.)
This does only seem to work with CTRL + Tab on the PC.
finally!!
was always annoyed that the mac didn’t have this option, one of the few things that windows illustrator had over the mac.
Wooohoooo !!!
I know now ^_^ | Thx_rype
Gracias a Dios!!!!
on the PC
ctrl+Tab Or ctrl+F6
Documents can also be switched~
Support you~~~
It’s a great short cut! the only thing is people on the mac that use Quicksilver will find that this is the same short cut to open quicksilver and there for cannot use this function
that’s me…but Quicksilver is worth it.