I'm a bit of a nonconformist. I like to do things my way. So I guess it's good that SolidWorks has a lot of customization options. I'm not a big keyboard guy, having grown up in the Mouse Age in terms of CAD, but I'm a big fan of
Alt-Tab and
Ctrl-Tab to switch applications or open documents, and I've got a handful of custom hotkeys that I like. Well, I just found 2 more.
I was looking purposelessly at the pull-down menus in SolidWorks the other day and found
View - Next Sheet, and
View - Previous Sheet. I tried them out in a multi-sheet Drawing and sure enough, they allowed a nice switch between Drawing Sheets! (Double-clicking the FeatureManager is SO MUCH WORK!) But who would want to pull these commands out of a menu? That's so 20 years ago.

So I went on over to
Tools - Customize - Keyboard, I did a little search for "sheet" and found the two View commands I had just discovered. "I wonder if you can assign a hotkey to
PgUp and
PgDn?" I thought.
Yes, you can. It shows up as "Prior" and "Next" within the Customize Keyboard dialog.
So now I've got the PgUp key and the PgDn key to walk up and down through the Sheets in a Drawing. Slick.
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