So I'm using Pages on my Mac and I once was able to switch the windows (NOT the application, but the windows in Pages) with the shortcut command + < or command + >. Now, they apparently removed this function.
In other applications like Safari it does still work. Do you know how I can activate this function again?
Thanks in advance!
It looks like Pages overwrites the command + < shortcut to zoom out the view even though that's the default shortcut for moving focus between windows on a German keyboard.
You can go in to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortucts to redefine that shortcut in Pages. Click App Shortcuts, click the + button, select Pages from the Application list, enter your equivalent of "Zoom Out" for the menu title, and enter a new keyboard shortcut.
In my example, I assigned command + back tick to Zoom Out and now in Pages that shortcut zooms out the view instead of switching windows.
command+< so that it doesn't conflict with the system wide command+< shortcut. It my example I set the shortcut to command+back tick to illustrate that the Pages shortcut overrides the system shortcut if they're set the same.
⌘` (command + backtick) definitely works, on both the old (’09) Pages and the new. ⌘< and ⌘> (remembering to hold down shift to get < and > on my keyboard) zooms in/out on both versions.
If ⌘<,⌘> used to switch windows for you, you must have redefined them, either in System Preferences→Keyboard→Shortcuts or in some third-party macro utility (Keyboard Maestro et al.). Re-check your shortcuts and see if they're still defined.
If ⌘` no longer works, look in System Preferences→Keyboard→Shortcuts→Keyboard and see if you've disabled or remapped "Move focus to next window", which by default is enabled and mapped to that key combination.
Bear in mind if you've using Spaces that ⌘` only switches to the next window of the same application in the same Space. It will not switch to a window in another space, nor a window that has been minimized (because minimized counts as a separate Space). Nor will it switch from a window that is using full screen (because such a window is the only window in its Space). Clicking on the app's Dock icon will switch to the next Space that has any open windows for that app (and you can then cycle between just those windows). Minimized windows can be found in the app's Dock menu, or using Mission Control.
