Switching between windows

I used to be able to switch windows by using command-`. That no longer works in any application, Safari, Mail, Pages, Numbers, etc. Please help. This just happened today; yesterday I was able to switch between windows in this way. I know I can go to the Windows drop-down mwnu and choose the right window from there, but that's a real pain. I'm using 10.6.8.

Go to System Preferences and make sure this shortcut is enabled:

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ecologisto wrote:
Hi,
I would like to switch between windows (not applications) by hitting ALT and TAB (same as Windows) instead of ^F4. In the preferences, I tried to change the shortcut labelled something like "Move focus to the active (or next) window". Unfortunately, it always complains that this shortcut is already used by another operation.
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