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    getting to beginning or end of document

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by diver110, Dec 12, 2010.

  1. diver110

    diver110 Notebook Evangelist

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    I am a new Mac user. When doing wordprocessing, how do you get to the beginning or end of a document? On a PC it is control home or end. There is not home or end key on a mac. Wikipedia says hit command and the up arrow or down arrow, but that does not work....Thanks.
     
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    SP Forsythe Notebook Evangelist

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    Beginning and end:
    fn + right arrow
    fn + left arrow

    Page up and down:
    fn + up arrow
    fn + down arrow
     
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    fn + right or left arrow takes me to the beginning or end of a line. What would get me to the end or beginning of a document? Thanks.
     
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    Try
    fn + Command + right arrow
    fn + Command + right arrow

    In MS Word you can customize the shortcuts too.
    As Well, by default, some applications will apply these shortcuts a little differently. Try them in Firefox, say, and see the difference. See this article to see what I mean: http://www.macworld.com/article/145685/2010/01/end_and_home_keys.html
     
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