Using functions such as page up/down, home, end etc

What exactly do you use a Home key to do? I use Windows every at work, and to be honest I can't remember off hand what I use the Home key for ... if I'm in a Unix bash shell, I use it for going to the start of a line, but other than that, I don't think I ever actually use Home in Windows.

If you want to go to the start of the line use Command-left arrow, to go to the end Command-right arrow.

 

Fn and left arrow is home, Fn and right arrow is End, and as you'd expect knowing that, Fn Up and Down are Pg Up and Down respectively.

 

In TextEdit (and, I suppose, in other text applications) you can move like PgUp, PgDn with ctrl-UpArrow and ctrl-DnArrow and you can go Home and End with cmd-UpArrow and cmd-DnArrow

 

Scroll to Page Top or Bottom

Here's another question on the lines of the original post (I-can-do-this-in-Windows-but-how-to-do-it-in-Mac)

How do I jump to the top or bottom of a long page. I can do fn+up/down to do PageUp/Down in steps, but is there an equivalent of Ctrl+PageUp/Down of Windows that takes you to the top/bottom of the page?

Thanks.

 

In what application? Cmd + Down/Up jumps to the end/beginning of a page for me in Safari.

 

Sorry, I posted this in the wrong thread (it wasn't intentional). I should have started a new thread. I'm talking about the keyboard controls in Win XP (running Bootcamp). I just realized that the OP wasn't referring to Bootcamp. It works under OS X (like you said), but on Windows, it doesn't.