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Figure 6-2. Holding down the Alt key and pressing Tab highlights successive icons; add
Shift to move backward. (Add the Ctrl key to lock the display, so you don’t have to keep
Alt pressed down. Tab to the icon you want; then press the space bar or Enter.)

Alt+Tab. It’s hard to imagine how anybody gets along without this
keyboard shortcut, which offers a quick way to bring a different
window to the front without using the mouse. If you press Tab

while holding down the Alt key, a floating palette displays
miniatures of all open windows, as shown in Figure 6-2. Each time

you press Tab again (still keeping the Alt key down), you highlight
the next app; when you release the keys, the highlighted program
jumps to the front.

Tip

If you just tap Alt+Tab and then release the keys, you get an effect that’s often even more useful:
You jump back and forth between the last two windows you’ve had open. It’s great when, for
example, you’re copying sections of a web page into a Word document.

Task View and Timeline: +Tab

The beloved Alt+Tab keystroke has been with us since Windows 1.0. But
there are two huge problems with it: