How to navigate through a text document

"Short Stuff" Presentation by Grace-Ellen Capier
on March 23, 2004

Keyboard commands for moving efficiently through a text document

To move

Keyboard shortcut

One character left

Left Arrow

One character right

Right Arrow

One line up

Up Arrow

One line down

Down Arrow

One word left

Option-Left Arrow

One word right

Option-Right Arrow

To the beginning of a document

Home, Apple-Up Arrow

To the end of a document

End, Apple-Down Arrow

To the beginning of a line

Apple -Left Arrow

To the end of a line

Apple-Right Arrow

To the beginning of a paragraph

Option-Up Arrow

To the end of a paragraph

Option-Down Arrow