Jeromy Anglim's Blog: Psychology and Statistics


Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Home, End, Page Up, Page Down Keys in OSX

Shortcut keys for navigation are inconsistent in OSX across applications. Notionally the home and end keys are Fn + Left / Right and Page Up / Page Down are Fn + Up/Down. However, this does not always achieve the same navigational effect, especially for programs ported from Windows.




TextEdit, Chrome Text Editor (probably other native OSX apps)
  • Paragraph Up / Down: Alt + Up / Down
  • Start of line / End of line: Cmd + Left / Right
  • Start of document / End of document: Cmd + Up / Down
  • Page Up / Down: Fn + Alt + Up / Down
  • Previous / Next Word: Alt + Left / Right
Finder

  • Top / Bottom File: Alt + Up / Down

Chrome Browsing

  • Start  / End of document:: Fn + Left /Right OR Cmd + Up / Down
  • Page Up / Page Down: Fn + Up / Down
Skim

  • Start  / End of document:: Fn + Left /Right 
  • Page Up / Page Down: Fn + Up / Down
  • Previous Page / Next Page : Cmd + Left / Right

    Word
    • Paragraph Up / Down: Alt + Up / Down
    • Start of line / End of line: Fn + Left / Right OR Cmd + Left / Right
    • Start / End of document: Fn + Cmd + Left / Right
    • Page Up / Down: Fn + Up / Down
    • Previous / Next Word: Alt + Left / Right
    Outlook
    • Paragraph Up / Down: Alt + Up / Down
    • Start of line / End of line: Fn + Left / Right
    • Start / End of document: Fn + Cmd + Left / Right
    • Page Up / Down: Fn + Up / Down
    • Previous / Next Word: Alt + Left / Right