Keyboard basics: Move the cursor and select text efficiently (Long version for beginners)

While most people know how to select text using the mouse, not everyone knows about the handy keyboard keys that can make moving around a document or selecting large amounts of text easier. The keys shown here work in any application, and come in handy all the time, from writing a document to simply browsing the web.

In this video, I cover using the following keyboard keys:

Movement:
Left/Right/Up/Down arrows
Ctrl + Left/Right - Move to next word
Home - Beginning of line
End - End of line
Ctrl + Home/End - Move to start/end of page
PgUp/PgDn - Move up/down one page

Selection:
Movement + Shift
Ctrl + A - Select all text

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control f is very useful can be used to jump to any spot within a page without needing to click tab a ton of times. and the keyboard short cut go back a page, and switch between tabs, i used this combo to rapidly copy past text from webpage into a google doc on the next tab without using a mouse. when compiling legal codes list from the govt webpage onto a google doc it made everything faster and easier. once get the flow and rhythm of it i was glad i started doing it that way.