Shortcut to bring window to front

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PeeWee

Hi

There is a system wide shortcut (cmd-< in German Mac OS X 10.3.5) to bring a
window behind another one to the front, when an application has more than
one window open.

This works in all the apps I use incl. Excel and Word, but not in Entourage
2004.

Does anyone know why?

Patrik
 
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Barry Wainwright

Hi

There is a system wide shortcut (cmd-< in German Mac OS X 10.3.5) to bring a
window behind another one to the front, when an application has more than
one window open.

This works in all the apps I use incl. Excel and Word, but not in Entourage
2004.

Does anyone know why?

Patrik
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In the english version of entourage it's cmd-~ (that's command-Tilde)

The menu command is named 'Cycle windows' and it's under the 'Window' menu.
 
P

PeeWee

In the english version of entourage it's cmd-~ (that's command-Tilde)
The menu command is named 'Cycle windows' and it's under the 'Window' menu.
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Came across this menu command a few times but never really cared about what
it is for, since the naming German is rather confusing.

But the shortcut is the same. Unfortunately on the German keyboard layout
the Tilde is tricky to get (opt-shift-j) and doesn't work together with cmd.

Thanks anyway.
Patrik
 
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Barry Wainwright

Came across this menu command a few times but never really cared about what
it is for, since the naming German is rather confusing.

But the shortcut is the same. Unfortunately on the German keyboard layout
the Tilde is tricky to get (opt-shift-j) and doesn't work together with cmd.

Thanks anyway.
Patrik
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If you are running Panther you can assign you own keyboard shortcuts.
 
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PeeWee

Am 12.09.2004 10:11 Uhr schrieb "Barry Wainwright" unter
If you are running Panther you can assign you own keyboard shortcuts.
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I tried this, but I cannot assign to Entourage the shortcut for this
function used by the system, since "it's already occupied".

I now discovered that there are two different Tilde characters, a bigger and
smaller one. Didn't knew that before and tried with the wrong one. So now I
can use at least the original shortcut of Entourage.

Nevertheless my intention was to have the same shortcut in all the programs.

Patrik
 
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Dave Cortright

Am 12.09.2004 10:11 Uhr schrieb "Barry Wainwright" unter


I tried this, but I cannot assign to Entourage the shortcut for this
function used by the system, since "it's already occupied".

I now discovered that there are two different Tilde characters, a bigger and
smaller one. Didn't knew that before and tried with the wrong one. So now I
can use at least the original shortcut of Entourage.

Nevertheless my intention was to have the same shortcut in all the programs.

Patrik
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In the Finder, open help and type in the word "windows" (in whatever
language you're using of course) and search for it. Open the "Shortcuts for
Windows" topic. That will tell you the keyboard shortcuts the OS now
provides to all applications for cycling through windows. It should work in
Entourage as well.
 
P

PeeWee

In the Finder, open help and type in the word "windows" (in whatever
language you're using of course) and search for it. Open the "Shortcuts for
Windows" topic. That will tell you the keyboard shortcuts the OS now
provides to all applications for cycling through windows. It should work in
Entourage as well.
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No, that's exactly the point of this thread. I know the OS shortcut to cycle
trough windows and use it a lot. It works in all programs except Entourage,
since it has his own shortcut for this purpose.

Patrik
 
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Dave Cortright

No, that's exactly the point of this thread. I know the OS shortcut to cycle
trough windows and use it a lot. It works in all programs except Entourage,
since it has his own shortcut for this purpose.

Patrik
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Then open up the Microsoft Framework file in your favorite resource editor
and remove the keyboard shortcuts from the cycle through windows items.
Presumably without these shortcuts defined, Entourage will then inherit the
OS shortcuts.
 
P

PeeWee

Then open up the Microsoft Framework file in your favorite resource editor
and remove the keyboard shortcuts from the cycle through windows items.
Presumably without these shortcuts defined, Entourage will then inherit the
OS shortcuts.
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Thanks for suggesting this. Removed in MENU ID 158 under key the Tilde, but
even then Entourage doesn't inherit the OS keystroke and doesn't react to
it.

So I put the corresponding key from the system (< in the German OS X), and
this works. There are no "side effects" until now, even though this
keystroke is now kind of double occupied.

Patrik
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Thanks for suggesting this. Removed in MENU ID 158 under key the Tilde, but
even then Entourage doesn't inherit the OS keystroke and doesn't react to
it.

So I put the corresponding key from the system (< in the German OS X), and
this works. There are no "side effects" until now, even though this
keystroke is now kind of double occupied.
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Make sure you have "Turn on full keyboard access" in System
Preferences/Keyboard & Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
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