The most common way to navigate through text is to use use the keyboard's cursor keys, the scroll bars, or the mouse's scroll wheel.

The keystrokes most commonly used to navigate through a document are:

Keystroke Description
Up Moves the insertion point up one line
Down Moves the insertion point down one line
Left Moves the insertion point left one character
Right Moves the insertion point right one character
Home Moves the insertion point to the first character on the line; pressing Home a second time moves the insertion point to the leftmost column
End Moves the insertion point to the end of the line
PageUp Moves the insertion point up one page
PageDown Moves the insertion point down one page
Ctrl+Left Moves the insertion point left one word
Ctrl+Right Moves the insertion point right one word
Ctrl+Home Moves the insertion point to the start of the document
Ctrl+End Moves the insertion point to the end of the document
Alt+Up Moves the insertion point up five lines
Alt+Down Moves the insertion point down five lines
Ctrl+Up Scrolls the document up one line in the window without moving the insertion point
Ctrl+Down Scrolls the document down one line in the window without moving the insertion point