Ctrl+Home: Go to the beginning of the document
In most applications, pressing Ctrl+Home will move your cursor to the very beginning of the document.
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This week’s set of tips will be focused on navigation shortcuts — keyboard methods of navigating around in a document. These work for most applications, but are especially useful when you’re using...
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When editing a text document, try using Ctrl+Up Arrow to move to the beginning of the previous paragraph, or Ctrl+Down Arrow to move to the beginning of the next paragraph.
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Hand-in-hand with Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End will go to the end of a document. And you already knew that Home by itself takes you to the beginning of the line where your cursor is, and End by itself takes you...
View ArticleF5 (or Ctrl+G): In Word and Excel, Go To a location
To round out our navigation week, let’s use an application-specific keyboard shortcut. If you use Microsoft Word, try this (when editing a long document): Press F5, and the “Go To” dialog box appears....
View ArticleShift plus any navigation key: Select text
Last week, we went through some navigation keyboard shortcuts. (You can review them by looking at all the posts in the navigation category, or you can take a look at the navigation reference page,...
View ArticleCtrl+Backspace: Delete to previous word
If you’re typing (in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and many other text entry programs) and you use the wrong word, a quick way to delete the entire word is Ctrl+Backspace. You need to practice this one a...
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Partnered with yesterday’s tip, you can delete an entire word from where the cursor is to right with Ctrl+Delete. For example, if your cursor is like so (before “country’s”): “TiVo is the _country’s...
View ArticleShift+End, Backspace: Delete the rest of the line
Here’s a combination that I use frequently when I find myself in the middle of a line of text and I want to remove the rest: Make sure your cursor is to the left of all the text you wish to erase. (Use...
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