Once you have a page located in the Explore tab, click on the page name to bring up the details in the Work Panel. By default, the view that comes up in the Work Panel will be the view that was last used. So if you were on the Properties tab on the previous page you were working on, then if you click on a new page you will be taken to that page's Properties view.

Regardless of which tab you are currently on in the Work Panel, you can always determine what the Active Page is by looking at the Page Tools under the "You are on this page:" heading.

One shortcut available to content managers (but not authors) is the ability to drag a page's icon directly to a Work Area tab to open the item under that tab.  Sometimes this saves a click when your desired tab isn't already selected.  For example, if the Context tab was currently shown, but you wanted to get the content editing form for another page in the Explore tab, drag the page's icon over to the Content tab, and release.

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