Navigating and Selecting With the Keyboard/text/swriter/guide/text_nav_keyb.xhptext; navigating and selecting with keyboardnavigating; in text, with keyboardselecting;text, with keyboardkeyboard; navigating and selecting in textNavigating and Selecting With the Keyboard
You can navigate through a document and make selections with the keyboard.To move the cursor, press the key or key combination given in the following table.To select the characters under the moving cursor, additionally hold down the Shift key when you move the cursor.
KeyFunction+Command keyCtrl keyRight, left arrow keysMoves the cursor one character to the left or to the right.Moves the cursor one word to the left or to the right.Up, down arrow keysMoves the cursor up or down one line.(Command+Option
Ctrl+Alt) Moves the current paragraph up or down.HomeMoves the cursor to the beginning of the current line.Moves the cursor to the beginning of the document.HomeIn a tableMoves the cursor to the beginning of the contents in the current cell.Moves the cursor to the beginning of the contents of the current cell. Press again to move the cursor to the first cell in the table. Press again to move the cursor to the beginning of the document.EndMoves the cursor to the end of the current line.Moves the cursor to the end of the documentEndIn a tableMoves to the end of the contents in the current cell.Moves the cursor to the end of the contents of the current cell. Press again to move the cursor to the last cell in the table. Press again to move the cursor to the end of the document.PgUpScrolls up one page.Moves the cursor to the header.PgDnScroll down one page.Moves the cursor to the footer.