Hi Carolyn,
It's much easier to illustrate how to use these keystrokes on the
MacBook Pro by taking a practical example of where documentation
references "Home" and "End". Let's assume that you've read about
movement commands because you want to navigate to the top or bottom of
a list. This could, for instance, be the messages table in Mail,
because you want to move to the most recent message. Or, perhaps you
ran a search of messages on a certain topic by pressing Command-Option-
F to move to the search field, then typed in search terms like
"bookmarks" or "smart playlists", and then tabbed to the messages
table and you now want to read through the entries starting with the
earliest message. At this point, after interacting (VO-Shift-Down
arrow) with the messages table, you read that VO-Home takes you to the
beginning of the table and VO-End takes you to the end of the table.
On your MacBook Pro you would press VO-Fn-Shift-Left Arrow in place of
VO-Home to move to the beginning of the table and VO-Fn-Shift-Right
Arrow in place of VO-End to move to the end of the table.
These movement commands really do move to the start and end of the
table -- for example, if you want to read the names of senders or the
subject or date of the message you'll need to use VO-Right arrow or VO-
Left arrow to move back to one of these columns, since VO-Fn-Shift-
Right arrow moves focus to the last column of the last row of your
displayed table and VO-Fn-Shift-Left arrow moves focus to the first
column of the first row of your displayed table.
Another thing that I find useful in mail when I want to read up or
down a subject thread, but have my messages ordered by date, rather
than by thread, is pressing Option-Up arrow or Option-Down arrow to
read previous or next messages in the thread.
Navigation within documents is a little different, since you don't
have a table structure. In that case you can, indeed, as James
advises, use Command-Up arrow to move to the top of the document and
Command-Down arrow to move to the bottom of a document.
Here's a link to one of the archived list posts on shortcut sequences
for movement and selection that work in any of Mac's Cocoa apps
(TextEdit, Mail, etc. -- most of the apps you use). These are Mac OS
X specific:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg02038.html
("Moving and Selecting in Cocoa Apps")
(there's one typo where "select to beginning of document" appears
twice -- my bad for being sloppy with cut and paste, but it's obvious
that the second case is meant to be "select to end of document")
Also, the example I gave for moving to the top or bottom of the mail
messages table can also easily be used for the songs table of iTunes,
in exactly the same way (in combination with search, if needed, with
exactly the same shortcut sequence of Command-Option-F to go to the
search text field). This pattern also works for Finder, if I run a
search in list view. In general, you may also want to navigate within
the table to specific columns with VO-Right arrow or VO-Left arrow,
and you might resort your results in each column with VO-Backslash,
where "backslash" is the key at the rightmost key on English input
keyboards, just below the delete key and above the return key. (On
non-English input keyboards you may need to bring up the Commands menu
with VO-H twice, and look for the "Sort" option.) In the mail
messages example, I might have wanted to do this to reorder replies
according to the name of a sender, or by subject thread. Each time VO-
Backslash is applied the sort order of that column will invert between
ascending and descending sort order. Make sure that you return your
sort to your preferred setting (e.g. "date received") when you're done.
HTH. If you have a particular context in mind for using these keys,
just ask.
Cheers,
Esther
On Feb 5, 2010, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi, This is because on their own they really don't do anything on
the mac.
For example, in windows, home takes you to the beginning of a line
in an edit field, and end takes you to the end of the line.
In the mac world, control left arrow takes you to the beginning of
the line and control right arrow takes you to the end.
Some one will have to enlighten us on the placement of the next and
previous page and top and bottom of document commands.
unfortunately they are escaping me just now.
Carolyn wrote:
Chris:
It should, but it simply doesn't do anything. Boy do I feel dumb!
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Blouch
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: question about home, end, page up page down
Function (which is the bottom-left most key on the whole keyboard
layout) and the arrow keys makes up/down into PageUp and PageDown
while left becomes Home and right becomes End.
Hope that helps.
CB
Carolyn wrote:
Hi Listers:
I'm in a quandry. I have a MacBook Pro, and I'm having difficulty
locating page up, page down, end and home. I was told they are
functionkey plus the arrows, but they don't respond when I try to
use them that way. Any clarification would be much appreciated.
Alternatively, anyone living neaar Denver Co who might be
interested in bringing a very slow rooky along with some tutoring
should write me off list.
TIA for anything.
Carolyn
CH:)
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