Global Navigation: Moving the Cursor

Go    Top/Bottom/Home/End/
Menu    
["Go Menu" opens the first menu at the top of the screen. The "Right 1-10" commands will take you to subsequent menus. (It's usually more efficient to go directly to a menu by saying " Please and then the name of the menu.)]
Up/Down/Right/Left/Word/Skip/Tab/Tab Back/Page Up/Page Down    1-100    ["Word" goes right x number of words. "Skip" goes left x number of words.]
Skip    1-20    Letters/Words/Lines    [This command moves the cursor backward the requisite number of letters, words, or lines.]
Letter/Word/Line    1-20    [This command moves the cursor forward the requisite number of letters, words, or lines.]
Up/Down    110-250 by 10's, to 950 by Fifties or Hundreds    [For Example, "Down 120," "Up 2 Fifty," "Down 2 Hundred."]
Up/
Down/Right/Left    Up/Down/Right/Left    1-100    [This does exactly what it says. This and the next command are more useful for moving selected objects -- like a picture -- than moving around in text. Also, the "Down Up" combination is useful when you want to advance the page, but not the cursor. For example, saying "Down Up 20" when the cursor is at the bottom of the screen will leave the cursor at the same place in the text, but in the middle of the screen. The following macro is useful this way to.]
Up/Down/Right/Left    1-100    Up/Down/Right/Left    1-100
Up/Down/Right/Left/Tab/Page Up/Page Down    1-100    Show    
[This briefly highlights the two characters following the cursor after moving the cursor.]

Control   Up/Down     1-100     [This moves you up or down number of paragraphs.]
Page    1-100    
[This is an alternate way to say the above "Page Down 1-100" command.]
Half    Page (Down) (Page Down)/Up (Page Up)
Page Up/Page Down    1-100    Up/Down    1-40
Page Up/Page Down    Up/Down    1-40    
[This is a simpler way to say the above "Page Up/Down 1 Up/Down 1-40" command.]

Find Screen 1-100    
[While the above "Page" commands are relative, the "Find" commands are absolute, so no matter where the cursor is in a document, "Screen Five" will always take you five screens down from the top of the document.]
Find Line    1-1000
Find Line    1-999    1-999    
[This allows you to find lines numbering beyond 1000. Make sure to say that numbers in the way they can be broken up into two numbers. For example, to find line 30,123 you could say "Find Line thirty, one-twenty-three" or "Find Line three-zero, one-two-three" or "Find Line three-zero, one hundred twenty-three,"
but not "Find Line thirty thousand one-twenty-three."]

Insert    Line (Up)/Down/Paragraph/Comma/Period/Question Mark
Another/New/Top/Bottom    Line/Paragraph    ["Another Line" combines "Go End" and "Enter."]
New Back (New Line Stay)    [This combines "New Line" and the Left Arrow, making a new line, but leaving the cursor at the end of the old one.]
Another/Insert/New/Back New    1-20 (1-20 Lines)    [This and the next three sets of macros combine cursor positioning commands with commands that put extra space after the line the cursor starts
on. For example, "Another 3" goes to the end of the line then presses enter three times. "Insert 5" goes to
the beginning of the line then presses enter three times, leaving you on the line above the line you were on. "Back New" presses enter where the cursor is, but leaves the cursor on the original line, rather than advancing it to the new line like the "New" command does.]
Another/Insert/Last/New/Back New/Next    1-20    Down/Up/Left/Right    [This combines the above command with a direction command.]
Down/Up/Left/Right    Another/Insert/New/Back New
Down/Up/Left/Right    1-20    Another/Insert/New/Back New

Another/Insert/Last/New/Back New/Next    1-20    Down/Up/Left/Right    1-20    
["Another 5 Up 3" combines "Another Line" with five returns and three up arrows.]
Another/Insert/Last/New/Back New/Next    1-20    1-20    ["Another 2 3" goes to the end of the line and presses return three times, but leaves the cursor only two lines down.]

Up/Down    Paragraph/Home/End/Left
Up/Down    1-20    Line(Enter)/Paragraph/Home/End/Left
End    Right/Left/Paragraph/Space/Delete
Paragraph    Home/End/End Left
Top End
Bottom Home

Add to (Add Paragraph to)/Add Line to    Top/Bottom     [This set of macros puts one or two blank lines at the top or bottom of the document so you can add a line or paragraph there.]
(
Top/Bottom    Line/Paragraph)

Go    Top/Bottom/Home/End    1-40    [This command puts the cursor at the top or bottom of the page or beginning or end of the line, then moves number of characters starting from the beginning or end of the line or document. For example, "Home 5" goes five characters to the right of the beginning of the line you are on. "End 4" goes for characters to the left of the end of the line you're on.]
Go    Top/Bottom    Insert
Go    Before/After
[This puts the cursor before or after text that's highlighted.]

Enter    1-40    Times (Press Enter    1-40 Times)
Enter Down
Enter Down    1-20
Enter Down Enter


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