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Text Fields

The following table lists the keyboard operations for text fields. For details on this component, see Text Fields.

Table 29   Keyboard Operations for Text Fields 

Keyboard Operation	Action
Right arrow	Moves insertion point one character to the right
Left arrow	Moves insertion point one character to the left
Ctrl-right arrow	Moves insertion point to beginning of next word
Ctrl-left arrow	Moves insertion point to beginning of current word, or, if insertion point is already at the beginning of the current word, moves it to the beginning of the previous word
Home	Moves insertion point to beginning of text field
End	Moves insertion point to end of text field
Shift-Home	Extends selection to beginning of line
Shift-End	Extends selection to end of line
Shift-left arrow	Extends selection one character to the left
Shift-right arrow	Extends selection one character to the right
Ctrl-Shift--left arrow	Extends selection to previous word
Ctrl-Shift--right arrow	Extends selection to next word
Ctrl-A	Selects all characters in the text field

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