Manipulating and moving through text quickly

Below are the different methods of how you can quickly and easily move through text in a document without the aid of a mouse. Not only does this help users who do not have access to a mouse, it can also save you a great deal of time when working with text documents.




Arrow keys - Simply using the arrow keys on the keyboard will move the cursor up, down, left, or right in the document.



CTRL and Arrow keys - Holding down the CTRL key while pressing the left or right arrow keys will move the cursor one word at a time. This is much faster than only using the arrow keys. Holding down the CTRL key while pressing up or down will move through each of the paragraphs in the document.



End and Home keys - Pressing the End key will take you to the end of a document and pressing the Home key will move you to the beginning of a document.



Shift key - The shift key allows you to highlight text. For example, holding down the shift key while using the right or left arrow keys will highlight the text to the left or right. If you hold down shift while pressing the down arrow keys, you will highlight one line at a time in that direction.



Finally, you can use the Shift key in combination with the other above recommendations. For example, pressing and holding Shift and CTRL and using the arrows will highlight a word at a time, or holding down Shift and pressing the End key will highlight from the current cursor position to the end of the document.