Moving Between Apps Using Mission Control

Hello,
Does anyone know of way that I can quickly move between apps using the arrow keys and Mission Control? For example, in Snow Leopard if I use Mission Control (F3) I could easily move between all of my apps and/or multiple instances of an app by using the arrow keys.
In Lion if use Mission Control the apps come up but I have to actually click on the one the app that I want to bring up.
Thanks,
Brian

I use the three finger swipe:
The three finger swipe works in Mission Control too. There are lots of ways to accomplish this.
⌘ Tab works for all open apps, including those that are "minimized".

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4u2nv247 wrote:
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