For some reason Windows 10 seems to be preconfigured with a weird alt+tab configuration for MS Office products (using Office 2010).
Normally, when I press alt+tab once, the window switcher automatically moves the window picker box to the previously active window. I.e. if I have two file explorer windows open and first activate one, then the other, pressing alt+tab once switches between
these two windows.
However, in MS Office, this behaviour seems to be highjacked by MS Office in a weird way. Here are two examples:
- If Excel is the active window, pressing alt+tab once places the window picker box on the _current_ window.
- In MS Word, upon opening a new Word document from e.g. the file explorer when another document is already open in the background, pressing alt+tab after once having opened the new doc places the window picker on the previously opened Word document, not
on the previous window, e.g. the file explorer.
This is obviously pretty destructive to a productive workflow if you use the keyboard a lot. I've been searching around for a way to turn off this customised behaviour of the alt+tab shortcut, back to a more normal "window switching" behaviour but haven't
managed to find anything so far.
