Switch Between Tabs Of Same App In Mac

For those keyboard ninjas who hate using the mouse, switching between tabs in your browser window is essential since most people probably have a bunch of tabs open at once. I personally use my mouse for navigating tabs, but there are times when it’s easier to just use the keyboard, like when I am doing a lot of typing and need to get some info from a different tab quickly.

  • Here we will see another simple key shortcut that would help you switch between the different windows of same app. Command + ` Note: The key ` is located just above the tab key in your keyboard. Press Command + `: For forward switching between different windows of same application.
  • If you use IE, then you’re using Windows, which means you’re probably familiar with the ALT + TAB shortcut key for switching between open applications. If so, then all you have to do to switch between tabs in IE is to press CTRL + TAB.That will simply rotate your through all the tabs going forward and then starting from the beginning again when you reach the last tab on the right.
  • Excel has many ways to move to different data areas in a worksheet or between different worksheets in the same workbook. Some methods — such as the Go To command — can be accessed using keyboard shortcut key combinations, which, at times, can be easier and quicker to use than the mouse.But follow our full guide to find the most comfortable option for your workflow.

Depending on your browser, the keyboard shortcuts do vary a little bit, but luckily a lot of them are similar. Not only that, but some browsers like Chrome have a couple of different shortcuts keys for navigating tabs in different ways. You can simply roll through them one by one going left to right, you can skip around, you can go to the previous tab or you can go to the first or last tab. Chrome even has a cool shortcut for bringing back the last tab you closed.

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In this article, I’ll go through the four major browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari) and show you the different ways to navigate and switch between tabs.

Internet Explorer Tab Shortcuts

If you use IE, then you’re using Windows, which means you’re probably familiar with the ALT + TAB shortcut key for switching between open applications. If so, then all you have to do to switch between tabs in IE is to press CTRL + TAB. That will simply rotate your through all the tabs going forward and then starting from the beginning again when you reach the last tab on the right.

If you want to go the other way, right to left, then press CTRL + SHIFT + TAB. If you want to go to a specific tab, you can press CTRL + N, where N is a number between 1 and 8. Unfortunately, you can’t go past 8, so if you have more than eight tabs, you’ll have to use a different keyboard shortcut or just click on it. CTRL + 9 will take you to the last tab, even if there are more than 8!

There is one last keyboard shortcut, which could be useful for some people: CTRL + K. This will simply duplicate the current tab in a new tab. Previous versions of IE before IE 11 used to have a feature called QuickTabs that let you see all your tabs in a grid of thumbnails, but that’s been removed. In terms of navigating tabs, that’s about it for IE.

Google Chrome Tab Shortcuts

Just as with IE, you can get around Chrome tabs using some of the same keyboard shortcuts, which is convenient if you have to use different browsers for different purposes. CTRL + TAB will work the same way and move you one tab from left to right. CTRL + SHIFT + TAB will move you right to left one tab. You can also use CTRL + N in the same way. The only difference in Chrome is that along with CTRL + TAB and CTRL + SHIFT + TAB, you can also use CTRL + PgDown and CTRL + PgUp respectively if you prefer those keys.

The only additional keyboard shortcut for Chrome is CTRL + SHIFT + T, which opens the last tab you closed. I have found this particularly handy on many occasions.

Firefox Tab Shortcuts

Firefox has a couple of shortcuts that are a bit different from Chrome and IE. Firstly, the ones that are the same: CTRL + TAB, CTRL + SHIFT + TAB and the associated ones with PgDown and PgUp, CTRL + SHIFT + T, CTRL + N, and CTRL + 9.

In Firefox, there are a couple of shortcuts for moving tabs also. For example, if you press CTRL + SHIFT + PgUp, that will move the current tab to the left. CTRL + SHIFT + PgDown will move the current tab to the right. There is also CTRL + HOME and CTRL + END, which will move the current tab to the start or to the end, respectively. Lastly, Firefox has a nice keyboard shortcut, CTRL + SHIFT + E, that opens Tab Groups View, which then lets you simply pick any tab by using the right and left arrows on your keyboard and pressing Enter.

Safari Tab Shortcuts

Since Safari hasn’t been updated for Windows past version 5, we will only talk about Safari shortcuts on the Mac. Safari 7 is the latest released version of Safari for OS X Mavericks, but Safari 8 will be released in 2014 when OS X Yosemite arrives.

Again, the default CTRL + TAB and CTRL + SHIFT + TAB also works on Safari just fine. You can also replace these with COMMAND + SHIFT + [ and COMMAND + SHIFT + ]. The CTRL + N keyboard shortcut does not work on Safari unfortunately. Like Firefox has the CTRL + SHIFT + E shortcut to show you all tabs, Safari has a similar view using COMMAND + SHIFT + .

You can also bring back the last closed tab like you can in other browsers, but in Safari the shortcut is COMMAND + Z.

That’s about it! Hopefully, you can be more productive by using these shortcut keys in the browser of your choice. If you know of any shortcuts for managing tabs that I didn’t mention here, let us know in the comments. Enjoy!

If you’ve ever used a Mac, you should know that there’s a pretty useful keyboard shortcut Command + ` that allows you to switch between windows of the same app, like Chrome, Firefox, Onenote, Excel, Word, etc. For those of you using Windows 10, you know that it has a keyboard shortcut that does the same thing, but not so efficiently. The “Alt + Tab” Windows 10 shortcut allows you to move through windows of all active apps. “Alt + Shift + Tab” does that in reverse order. However, it’s not as fast since you have to go through all active apps to switch between windows of the same app.

How to Switch Between Windows of the Same App on Windows 10?

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  • Place the desired app (for me, it was Chrome) in the #1 position of the order of the Windows 10 taskbar. You can set it at any position in the order, but #1 is generally easy to remember to use with your most used app.

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  • Press the “Win + 1” keyboard shortcut. It will bring an Aero preview of all the Windows of the app.
  • Press the same shortcut again to switch to the windows you want to open from the Aero preview. If you want to do the switching in reverse, press “Windows + Shift + 1”.

Related article: How to Switch Between Windows/Tabs in Chrome & Safari on Mac

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Method 2 to Switch Between Windows of the Same App/ Program:

Note: Requires you to install an extra program.

    • Download “Easy Window Switcher” by NeoSmart Technologies from this link. It’s free.
    • Open the download .exe file.

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  • Select the option “Automatically Start Easy Windows Switcher” in the next step. It will add the app to be started during every startup.
  • That’s it. Just press “Alt + `” on your keyboard to switch between windows of the same app. It’s latter key of the shortcut is also called “Backtick”, it is the key before the number “1” on the US Keyboard layout.

Pros of this method: Very useful utility. Lightweight. Suffices the basic function.

Cons: An extra program/task for your OS to handle. Doesn’t allow switching between multiple instances of the same app.

Related article: Guide to Windows 10 File Explorer

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