Re: Switching between open Excel workbooks using alt + tab

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From: JH Palmer (JHPalmer_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/13/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:01:01 -0700

Hi

It's Excel 2003.

I press and hold alt, then when I press tab, the preview window of active
programs appears. While keeping alt depressed, successive presses of tab
switch the preview to other programs or to other workbooks that are opened.
When I release the alt key the program that was currently highlighted becomes
the active program.

In previous operating systems / versions of Excel, it would move me to
another workbook, however in this version it just activates whatever the last
workbook was.

There are other ways of swithcing between workbooks, however I find this one
to be very convenient. Perhaps Microsoft has a patch if they read this forum?

Thanks

Jim

"gls858" wrote:

> JH Palmer wrote:
>
> > I formerly used alt + tab to switch between open excel files.
> >
> > Alt + tab displays a preview of the workbook, however when I release the
> > keys the most recent excel file is opened, not the one that is diplayed.
> >
> > Is there a setting that I can change to re-activate this?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> What version of Excel? If you hold the Alt key down after hitting
> the tab key it should show all of your open programs and docs.
> you can then tab to the desired program or doc.
>
> gls858
>

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