How do I bring "focus" to a window?

I'm trying to improve my workflow in FCP and sometimes find myself a bit frustrated.
For example, when I am in the Viewer window fiddling with filter parameters, I want to suddenly switch down to the Sequence in the Timeline window.
On a PC I would press ALT-TAB, or TAB to cycle through the windows. But in FCP I have to leave the keyboard and pick up my mouse then click in the Timeline window.
It slows me down a bit.
Is there any shortcut like TAB in Windows that allows me to change window focus?
Thanks,,

when you say in point in the timeline, are you talking about the beginning of the clip on the sequence? Or do you have an in point set in the timeline. If you are just talking about being at the absolute beginning of ANY clip in the timeline, and you don't want to scrub the mouse and snap, just press the up arrow key. That will go backward one edit point. Down arrow will go forward one edit point. Clip beginnings and ends are all edit points, and this works on all tracks. So if you want to stay in one track, solo it.

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