You can move around in an open document in several ways. To move around in a document without changing the location of the insertion point, you can use the vertical and horizontal scroll bars as follows:
Click the scroll arrows to move the document window up or down by a line, or left or right by a few characters.
Click above or below the vertical scroll box to move up or down one screen, or click to the left or right of the horizontal scroll box to move left or right one screen.
Drag the scroll box on the scroll bar to display the part of the document corresponding to the location of the scroll box. For example, dragging the scroll box to the middle of the scroll bar displays the middle of the document.
You can also move around in a document in ways that do move the insertion point. To place the insertion point at a particular location, you simply click there. To move the insertion point back or forward a page, you can click the Previous Page and Next Page buttons below the vertical scroll bar.
You can also press a key or a key combination on the keyboard to move the insertion point. For example, you can press the Home key to move the insertion point to the left end of a line or press Command+Home to move it to the beginning of the document.
Tip
The location of the insertion point is displayed on the status bar. By default, the status bar tells you which page the insertion point is on. The Live Word Count feature tells you which word out of all the words in the document it is in. To turn Live Word Count on or off, display the Word Preferences dialog box, click View, and then in the Window area, select or clear the Live Word Count check box.
You can use the keyboard shortcuts listed in the following table to move the insertion point around in a document.
To move... | Press... |
|---|---|
To the left one character | Left Arrow |
To the right one character | Right Arrow |
To the left one word | Option+Left Arrow |
Right one word | Option+Right Arrow |
To the beginning of the current line | Home or Command+Left Arrow |
To the end of the current line | End or Command+Right Arrow |
Up one line | Up Arrow |
Down one line | Down Arrow |
Up one screen | Page Up |
Down one screen | Page Down |
To the beginning of the current or previous paragraph | Command+Up Arrow or Option+Up Arrow |
To the beginning of the next paragraph | Command+Down Arrow or Option+Down Arrow |
To the beginning of the previous page | Command+Page Up |
To the beginning of the next page | Command+Page Down |
To the beginning of the document | Command+Home |
To the end of the document | Command+End |
In a long document, you might want to move quickly among elements of a certain type; for example, from graphic to graphic. You can click the Select Browse Object button at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar and then make a choice in the palette of browsing options that appears, such as Browse By Page or Browse By Graphic.
To move to a specific page, section, line, bookmark, comment, footnote, endnote, field, table, graphic, equation, object, or heading:
Press F5 to display the Go To page of the Find and Replace dialog box.
In the Go to what list, click the type of element you want to jump to.
The Enter box changes to reflect the selected element.
In the Enter box, type the name or number of the specific element you want to move to, or type <User Input>+ or <User Input>- followed by the number of items you want to move forward or backward.
Or
In the Enter list, click the specific element you want to move to.
Click Next.
