Mac 101: Drag and drop in the Application Switcher

Doesn't work Leopard 10.5.1 (24inch Intel Core2Duo iMac) - get up App switcher Command+tab - Can stop on app icon I want by lifting finger off tab key. Dragging .doc to Word icon in app switcher just brings Word to the front but doesn't open .doc.

Is there a way to change the color of the background on the application switcher?

can't do that "Shift+⌘+Tab, you can also use ⌘+~" on german keyboard! stupid or another key combination.

I'd like to add that I see this exact same "cycling" behavior in another completely fresh copy of Leopard too. That implies to me that it's endemic to all copies of Leopard and that this tip is fundamentally flawed.

This does not work on my install of 10.5.1. I start dragging a file in Finder, invoke Command-Tab, and try to drag onto an icon. However, the highlight in the task switcher keeps cycling through all the icons and after about 2 seconds brings Entourage to the front, no matter what other icon I was hovering over. This is 100% repeatable.

@6 In addition to Shift+⌘+Tab, you can also use ⌘+~ to reverse the direction. It's a much simpler combination.

@4: You can't drag and drop onto the Application Switcher icon itself in Tiger. You can drag, hold, switch and drop, however.

@9: It's Skitch

This is an interesting tip. Now I know I have a choice of dragging a file to the dock or the task switcher.

By the way, what application goes with that heart icon in the screenshot?

It doesn't work like that in Tiger. You can grab a file, command-tab to switch application and then drop it into the application (like, into an open window), but you can't simply release it on the application icon to open it in that app.

If Leopard adds the feature to let you drop it straight onto the icon, that sounds useful to me.