Word - Move Around in Word

Microsoft Word Basic

Part 6 - Move Around in Word

Word provides a number of ways to move around a document using the mouse and the keyboard.
First let us create some sample text before we proceed. To create a sample text there is a short cut available. Open a new document and type =rand() and just press enter to see the magic. Word will create following content for you:

Moving with Mouse:

You can easily move the insertion point by clicking in your text anywhere on the screen. Sometime if document is big then you can not see a place where you want to move. In such situation you would have to use the scroll bars, as shown in the following screen shot:

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Backstage View in Word

Entering Text in Word

Save Document in Word

Open Document in Word

Close Document in Word

Context Help in Word

You can scroll your document by rolling your mouse wheel, which is equivalent to clicking the up-arrow or down-arrow buttons in the scroll bar.

Moving with Scroll Bars:

As shown in the above screen capture, there are two scroll bars: one for moving vertically within the document, and one for moving horizontally. Using the vertical scroll bar, you may:

·         Move upward by one line by clicking the upward-pointing scroll arrow.

·         Move downward by one line by clicking the downward-pointing scroll arrow.

·         Move one next page, using next page button (footnote).

·         Move one previous page, using previous page button (footnote).

·         Use Browse Object button to move through the document, going from one chosen object to the next.

Moving with Keyboard:

The following keyboard commands, used for moving around your document, also move the insertion point:

Keystroke	Where the Insertion Point Moves
	Forward one character
	Back one character
	Up one line
	Down one line
PageUp	To the previous screen
PageDown	To the next screen
Home	To the beginning of the current line
End	To the end of the current line

You can move word by word or paragraph by paragraph. You would have to hold down the Ctrl key while pressing an arrow key, which moves the insertion point as described here: