Moving Around in a Document
  • 13 Mar 2023
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Text in Word 2000 is always entered at the insertion point. Open up the file: Sample text.doc

Below are some ways to move the insertion point around in your document. Try each of these ways

LEFT ARROW Moves the insertion point one character to the left

RIGHT ARROW Moves the insertion point one arrow to the right

UP ARROW Moves the insertion point one line higher

DOWN ARROW Moves the insertion point one line lower

HOME Moves the insertion point to the beginning of the line

END Moves the insertion point to the end of the line

CTRL + HOME Moves the insertion point to the beginning of the document

CTRL + END Moves the insertion point to the end of the document

CTRL + Left Arrow Move left to the beginning letter of each word

CTRL + Right Arrow Move right to the beginning letter of each word

PAGE UP Moves the insertion point one screen up

PAGE DOWN Moves the insertion point one screen down


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