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movement commands

Movement Commands:

 The first thing you will need to know about replacing text, is what we refer to as "movement commands". These are the keystrokes that you will use to navigate around the screen. It is very slow and time consuming to move letter by letter. So, we are going to show you some commands that will help you move by larger portions of text that would allow you to move quickly through your text.

Movement Commands

The following is a list of commands that you can use to move you through a document. You will need to memorize these as best you can for now. However, you will see them again later and we will try to remind you of the command at that point. After a while, we will not give the command because you should have memorized them by that point.

  1. Moving forward letter by letter, "right arrow"
  2. Moving backward letter by letter, "Left arrow"
  3. moving backward word by word, "control left arrow", this means hold the control key down and tap the left arrow
  4. moving forward word by word, "control right arrow", this means hold the control key down and tap the right arrow
  5. Moving to the previous line, "up arrow"
  6. To move to the next line, "down arrow",
  7. To move your cursor backward 25 lines, "page up"
  8. To move forward 25 lines, "page down
  9. To move to the beginning of the line, "home key", remember there are two of these keys
  10. Move to the end of the line, "end key", remember there are also two of these keys
  11. To move to the top of the document, "control home"
  12. To move to the bottom of the document, "control end key"

If you haven't noticed by now, these commands can be grouped into pares. There is the backward command and the forward command for the same size text that you are wanting to move by. Whatever direction you move, you can move in the opposite direction.

Practice moving around in your poem Mary by using the movement commands listed above. You will probably use the left, up, right, and down arrow keys the most.

Hopefully, you have a good grasp of movement commands. Now we want to build on these commands to teach you the selecting commands. Keep in mind that we are still trying to learn how to change or replace text in your document. We needed to teach you the movement commands first; so, you will understand the selecting commands better.

If you are ready to move on to selecting commands, press enter on the next link to begin. Selecting commands

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