Jump from File to File Quickly in Office 2010!

Most of us open more than just one file within a par­tic­u­lar soft­ware.  That’s what multi-tasking is all about.   You might be ref­er­enc­ing infor­ma­tion in sev­eral doc­u­ments in order to cre­ate a new one. In fact, Office 2010 actu­ally has no limit to the amount of files you can open at once, a multi-tasker’s dream!  Only your computer’s mem­ory is what lim­its the num­ber of files opened at a time.

Here’s the prob­lem.   Files nor­mally dis­play one on top of each other.  How do you switch quickly between the files within a soft­ware like Word 2010?  The com­mand you are look­ing for is called Switch Win­dows, located under the View tab. When clicked, it drops down a list of doc­u­ments cur­rently open for you to bring for­ward.   But isn’t it a has­sle to have to use your mouse to click on View + Switch Win­dows + the file you want to view?

Here’s the solu­tion.  Use the key­board short­cut in Office 2010 ALT + W + W.  It auto­mat­i­cally dis­plays the drop down list of open files.  Sim­ply type the num­ber of the file you want to view and that file dis­plays on top.  The per­fect way to jump around your open files!