How to delete text

[CaVoLo]

Alrite this is a rather stupid question....but in Microsoft word for windows....if your cursor is at the end of the line and you hold shift and press the home button it highlights all the way to the beginning of the sentence.

How do you do this on a mac??

[Anna]

you press shift and click with your mouse the words you want to highlight

[TEG]

Or hold down shift and hit home. If it goes to the beginning of the document, change the settings in the program to set home to beginning of the line.

TEG

[FredAkbar]

Here are some shortcuts, at least for Cocoa programs, I dunno if they work in all OS X programs:

Option + Right/Left arrows = move insertion point by one word

Option + Up/Down = jump to beginning/end of paragraph, or move between paragraphs

Command + Right/Left = jump to beginning/end of line

Command + Up/Down = jump to beginning/end of document or text field

Hold down Shift with any of these, and it will select everything between the insertion point's current position and its new position, instead of just moving the insertion point.

Hope that made sense...

[CaVoLo]

Originally posted by Anna
you press shift and click with your mouse the words you want to highlight

the whole point of this question was so i dont have to use the mouse

[Anna]

well press shift and use the arrow keys