Assuming it is enabled control-F4 will move you back to the main window of an application. This is configured in the Keyboard area of the Keyboard shortcuts tab of the Keyboard system preferences panel.
There are also control-F6 Move to floating window (Help / Find ) Best wishes, Jonathan On Apr 28, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my limited experience with Pages, I've found that using the command F > search facility requires that I use the window list to move between the > search pane and the document itself in order to preserve the search results. > That is, If I search for a word or phrase and it is found, then if I escape > out of the search pane to get to the doc, it loses its place and the search > term is lost - it puts me somewhere else in the document. > But, if I use the windows list with VO F2 twice quickly, and choose the > document from the list, I am place in the doc where the search term was found. > I have't done much with searching in Pages, or on the Mac yet, and I was > planning to ask about this myself at some point. > At any rate, using the windows list in pages to move between search pane and > doc seems to preserve the search location in the document. > > On Apr 27, 2014, at 9:15 PM, Linda Adams <pard...@mindspring.com> wrote: > >> I am using Maverick on my MacBook with, I think, the most current version of >> Pages. In the past, I had no problem using VO-F to search for text in a >> document. It seems to work only on the current page, not the entire >> document. Nor can I find a way to easily move from page to page or to get >> the search command to work in the whole document. I also tried using >> command-F but, once again, couldn't figure out how to get to the text itself. >> >> Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. BTW, it works just fine in the >> Text Edit application. >> >> Linda >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
