# Document Switcher

The document switcher is a small list of currently opened files that is shown (if enabled, see Preferences) when you switch documents, allows you to select what document to activate before actually doing so. The list will remain visible until either you release the modifier key that triggered the list (Ctrl key if using the TAB key or the right mouse button if using the scroll wheel) or one of the documents has been selected by clicking on it with the left mouse button. The highlighted document will then be activated.

Please note that if you assign anything else than Ctrl-(Shift-)TAB to switching documents, the document switcher will not work properly when switching using the keyboard. In that case, use the mouse or disable it.

Another tool will help you to navigate among opened files: the Vertical File Switcher. This is a dockable window which display the tab names of both views, main view first. It is toggled on or off by Show on the Settings -> Preferences -> General -> Document Switcher frame. . You can sort the tab names there, but this will mix tabs from both views. Restarting Notepad++ will restore the default ordering, which is first view top, second view bottom and left to right in each view.

To switch quickly to the n-th document on the tab bar, with n between 1 and 9, just hit Ctrl-Numpadn.

From Preferences → General, you can Disable extension column.