John, you can use the similar combinations to move your cursor around as well. Just don't use the Shift, as that does the selecting of the text. eg Ctrl-Arrow will move the cursor a word at a time. I just hold my thumb on the right Ctrl key and use my little finger on the left or right arrow key. After a while it becomes second nature, which helps to explain my frustration when using a Mac.
Have fun Frank 2009/6/27 John Howell <john.how...@vt.edu> > At 2:18 PM +1000 6/27/09, Frank Prain wrote: > >> Long-time lurker here. I had to jump in to say that on a PC it's perfectly >> possible to select text in Word (and many other programs) using >> combinations >> of the Ctr and Shift keys and the Home and End keys and the left- and >> right-arrows. >> >> eg, Move cursor to where you want to start. To select to the end of the >> line, just hold the Shift key and hit End. Voila! >> Shift-Ctrl-End will select to the end of the document, etc. >> > > Hi, Frank, and thanks for that information. But i have to ask, how many > keystrokes would it take to more the cursor in the first place without using > the mouse at all? I doubt that I'd have the patience!!! But I haven't > tried it, so I guess I shouldn't knock it. > > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences > Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 > Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 > (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html > > "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition > of jazz musicians. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
