Use Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow to quickly access all your open files

re: Use Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow to quickly access all your open files

Travis Owens — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:37:10 GMT

Just a FYI,

The Intel video drivers take over CTRL+ALT+(arrow key) to rotate the screen.

I actually didn't realize that until I tried your trick.

re: Use Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow to quickly access all your open files

r b — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:33:14 GMT

This doesn't work if you've selected a Window Layout of "Multiple documents", only if you're on "Tabbed documents" (under Tools -> Options)

re: Use Ctrl+Alt+DownArrow to quickly access all your open files

Michael Arita — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:22:18 GMT

Nice article. I stumbled on to the Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow that caused my screen to rotate 180. Freaked me out but after my friend helped figure it out, it was funny. I wanted to understand why it works on my machine but not on others? What is the driving force? Sounded, from your article's folks response, that it has something to do with the video driver. But what gives it priority or not for my computer versus others? Does it have anything to do with the type of monitor? I have a older NEC AccuSync 70 driven by the IBM motherboard's video board. My curiousity peaked.