However, in this crazy-making situation, you get this instead: You then place your text cursor (the vertical blinking line or "insertion point") right before the word "interesting" and type "wonderful" Your intention is to insert this word. Imagine your Word document contains the following sentence: Has this ever happened to you? You're editing a document in Microsoft Word, and all of a sudden, instead of inserting the new text you're typing, with every keystroke you're deleting and replacing your existing text! Here's how it might look: Just keep that in mind if you’re trying to navigate a long website and find yourself instead jumping back and forth between pages.Microsoft Word: When I Type, It Replaces (and Forward-Deletes) My Existing Text! While this mistake won’t do anything at all in a word processing app like Pages, it will actually trigger the Next/Previous page function in a Web browser like Safari. Note that these commands can be easy to mix up, and users might find themselves pressing Command-Right or Command-Left with the intention of jumping to the top or bottom of a page. In addition to Command-Up and Command-Down, users can press Function-Left and Function-Right to achieve the same result (that is, jump to the top or bottom of a document, respectively).įurther, users can jump up or down a single page at a time by pressing Function-Up and Function-Down, respectively. The above commands work for any Mac-compatible keyboard, but if you have an Apple keyboard with the Function key, a few more shortcuts become available. Press Command and Up to jump back up to the top. Now press Command and the Down arrow on your keyboard and you’ll be instantly taken to the very bottom of the document or page. To try it out, open a lengthy pages document or website, something long enough that you would normally have to scroll down to reach the bottom. Everyone knows that the Command key (⌘) is arguably the most important modifier in OS X, and used for functions like cut, copy, paste, and Spotlight, but you can also use the Command key in conjunction with the keyboard arrow keys to quickly jump to the top or bottom of a document or page. Here are some quick OS X keyboard shortcuts that can save you some time while navigating long documents or websites. Navigate Large Documents in a Snap with These Mac Keyboard Shortcuts
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