How do I keep multiple windows open and switch back and forth?

billyg27,
if you hold down a Command key and press the Tab key, it will show a set of icons representing your currently opened programs. Press Tab until you arrive at the program you’d like to switch to, and then release the Command key.

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Hi Linc
Thank you for your response.
I'm a bit of an amateur so I hope below is the information you've asked for:
Step 1
23/11/2014 09:19:14.007 ReportCrash[294]: Saved crash report for Finder[4349] version 10.10.1 (10.10.1) to /Users/AAAA/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-11-23-091914_BBBB-MacBoo k-Pro-2.crash
23/11/2014 09:19:14.008 ReportCrash[294]: Removing excessive log: file:///Users/AAAA/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Finder_2014-11-23-091840_BBBB -MacBook-Pro-2.crash
23/11/2014 09:19:14.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x103809000): p=4357[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
23/11/2014 09:19:14.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 4357[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x103809000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
23/11/2014 09:19:14.454 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Finder[4357]) Binary is improperly signed.
23/11/2014 09:19:14.454 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Finder) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 1 seconds.
23/11/2014 09:19:15.584 Finder[4359]: assertion failed: 14B25: libxpc.dylib + 97940 [9437C02E-A07B-38C8-91CB-299FAA63083D]: 0x89
23/11/2014 09:19:15.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10bfbf000): p=4359[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
23/11/2014 09:19:15.000 kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: process 4359[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10bfbf000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
Step 2
Process:               Finder [4626]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier:            com.apple.finder
Build Info: Finder_FE-932001003000000~1
Responsible:           Finder [4626]
PlugIn Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
PlugIn Identifier:       com.apple.finder
-0 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10c9a5000): p=4626[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-0 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4626[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10c9a5000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
-2 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10c5b3000): p=4624[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-2 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4624[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10c5b3000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
-3 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10f4bd000): p=4622[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-3 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4622[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x10f4bd000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
-5 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x105ecf000): p=4620[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-5 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4620[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x105ecf000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
-7 sec                         CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1012cd000): p=4617[Finder] final status 0x3000a00, denying page sending SIGKILL
-7 sec                         CODE SIGNING: process 4617[Finder]: rejecting invalid page at address 0x1012cd000 from offset 0x3f000 in file "" (cs_mtime:0.0 == mtime:0.0) (signed:0 validated:1 tainted:1 wpmapped:0 slid:0)
--> __TEXT 000000010c966000-000000010ce55000 [ 5052K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
    __DATA 000000010ce55000-000000010cf53000 [ 1016K] rw-/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
0   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c9a521f 0x10c966000 + 258591
10 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c9977b5 0x10c966000 + 202677
11 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c988154 0x10c966000 + 139604
12 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c987e15 0x10c966000 + 138773
13 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c987d35 0x10c966000 + 138549
14 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c987cfd 0x10c966000 + 138493
28 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c96b960 0x10c966000 + 22880
1   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a69d 0x10c966000 + 149149
2   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98aba7 0x10c966000 + 150439
3   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c9795d2 0x10c966000 + 79314
4   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98aa0b 0x10c966000 + 150027
5   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a952 0x10c966000 + 149842
6   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a78a 0x10c966000 + 149386
7   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c979496 0x10c966000 + 78998
8   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a548 0x10c966000 + 148808
9   com.apple.finder                                 0x000000010c98a410 0x10c966000 + 148496
10 com.apple.finder                               0x000000010c983df6 0x10c966000 + 122358
       0x10c966000 -        0x10ce54ffb com.apple.finder (10.10.1 - 10.10.1) <33C3024A-4A16-3485-B2B1-89FA33B9558A> /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Many thanks
David

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