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Use the Command key to get to document extremities
Authored by: earthsaver on Dec 02, '03 11:27:40AM

Shift has been an available keyboard shortcut for highlighting text for as long as I can remember. It worked in the early versions WordPerfect for DOS, for example. I don't know where it started.

So, naturally, it can be combined to highlight text by character (shift+left/right), by word (option+shift+left/right), by line (shift+up/down), and by paragraph (option+shift+up/down). As well, one can use command+shift+left/right to select to the beginning or end of a line and command+shift+up/down to select to the beginning or end of a document.

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- Ben Rosenthal
Lombard 400 512 MB RAM OS X 10.3.1



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