How do I - with Swiss German Keyboard Layout - switch between several windows of the same application, what is the shortcut

can anyone pls help me with this. plus anbody explain me how this very basic feature that millions of people are using billions of times every day can be that hard to find on a mac?? there is hundreds of posts about this, but nothing for the swiss german keyboard. and apple: can you please make this just that simple and great as all the rest. thank you so much.

Hi Kappy,
well what you are saying is obvious to me. This is not the point for me and not what I wanted to know. But I think you answered my question anyway: OS X is unable to switch between windows of the same application as I mentioned in my example.
WHY NOT???
Every other OS is able to differentiate between windows and not just applications.
Another example: The Mail application and an Email editor window. When you are writing an Email and you want to switch to the main window of the Mail application to read something you must again use the mouse!
I mean Apple seems to be "somehow" using FreeBSD in the background and even in FreeBSD's window manager it is possible to switch between windows of the same application.
Well, in the Apple world it is always the pour user who is not intelligent enough to understand Apple's philosophy ;-(
To me this is not modern, it is simply a weakness of the OS.
Cheers
Quartz84

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