When editing one view of a cell, there are a set of commands in the View menu that will switch to an alternate view of the same cell.

- Use Edit Layout View to switch to the layout view.
- Use Edit Schematic View to switch to the unnumbered schematic view.
- Use Edit Multi-Page Schematic View... to switch to a particular page of a multipage schematic (this is the only command that can create new pages of a multipage schematic).
- Use Edit Icon View to switch to the Icon view.
- Use Edit VHDL View to switch to the VHDL view.
- Use Edit Documentation View to switch to the text-only documentation view.
- Use Edit Skeleton View to switch to the Skeleton view.

For all other view types, use Edit Other View... and select the desired view. Note that these commands are equivalent to the Edit Cell... command (in menu Cell) with an appropriate selection.

When editing cells with text-only views, the window becomes a text editor. You may then use the Text Cell Context... command (in menu File / Export) and the Text Cell Context... command (in menu File / Import) save and restore this text to disk. See Section 4-10 for more on text editing.

The commands to edit another view work only when that cell exists. To create a new cell of a particular type, use the Make... commands of the View menu. Thus, Make Multi-Page Schematic View... creates a new page in a multi-page schematic. Make Icon View creates an icon from a schematic (see Section 3-11-4 for more on this).