Cycling through windows in CS2
How do you “cycle through” all of your open documents in Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Macintosh?
Ever since I upgraded to CS2 I’ve been unable to hit Apple-` or Command-` to cycle through all of my open documents. This key combination used to work in Photoshop 7 and most Macintosh software lets you cycle through all of your open documents like this (including Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2).
After another Google search I finally discovered that Control-tab is the default setting in Photoshop CS2 for cycling through windows. Does anyone know how I can remap Control-tab to Command-` in Photoshop’s Keyboard Shortcuts?
Stumble It!Posted in OS X Software at 2:41 PM
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At the bottom of the EDIT menu is a keyboard shortcut menu, you should be able to make all the changes you like from there. This is the kind of thing that makes me so glad I have a membership in the NAPP - free help desk, and they’re usually really fast. OR in the future, email me and I will ask them.
Did this help? If not let me know and I will get on it for you.
Posted by: David on October 24, 2005 6:34 PM
I’m familiar with Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts (option-shift-command-K). I just haven’t been able to figure out where the Photoshop engineers buried “cycle through windows”.
I challenge you to find it (Control-tab) under keyboard shortcuts for Windows or under the File menu for document windows.
I figure that once I know where this keyboard shortcut is hidden, I can reassing it to the familiar Command-` that is standard under OS X for cycling through windows.
Frustrating.
Posted by: Jay on October 25, 2005 8:16 AM
Ok, Dude, I am on it. I have submitted an advice desk ticket at the NAPP. When I get a reply I will let you know. In the mean time head on over to fearfullyhuman.com and take a look at the latest photo - no reservations. Particularily happy with this one, though it gets a little dark and loses it’s tonal range as soon as I jpg the sucker - even at 10 quality. I think i need to learn more about optimizing.
Posted by: David on October 25, 2005 10:53 AM
Wednesday morning, 6am - still no word from the NAPP about remapping this particular shortcut. Maybe we stumped’em. Will keep you posted. In the mean time I have 3 shows today, so gotta pack up those rubber chickens and head out. Sigh, life on the road…
Posted by: David on October 26, 2005 9:20 AM
According to Adobe:
To cycle through open documents if the focus is on a document on a Windows system, press Ctrl + F6
Its the same as for cycling in Adobe Acrobat. But also works in Illustrator CS2
Posted by: Jessey N on November 30, 2005 12:30 PM
I was wondering if you ever found a way to remap the shortcut to the default… command+`?
Posted by: paul on April 10, 2006 9:17 PM
I’ve given up looking for a way to remap Command-` to cycle through open windows and I’ve become used to hitting Control-TAB to do this. Still seems pretty dumb since Command-` still works in Illustrator CS2.
Posted by: Jay on April 11, 2006 9:18 AM
The desired shortcut for cycling thru windows in photoshop cs2 is Ctrl-Tab. For all other CS2 applications, it is the default MAC OS X Cmd-` or Cmd-~
Posted by: Gus on July 6, 2006 7:55 PM
Thank you Gus. I’ve been wondering about that for so long. Its funny, after you post everyone seems happy. Well done!
Posted by: Sam Mallett on September 15, 2007 6:30 PM
Got it! What I do is open Quickeys and have it type a control tab for me when I hit command ` when in Photoshop. It’s not totally elegant, but one of the reasons why I love my Quickeys.
Posted by: Peter Payne on October 27, 2007 12:58 PM
