Starting Simple: Correcting Typos

As you edit your documents, you will likely use different editing techniques for different things. Some words you ll let Word correct for you; others you ll retype. Or perhaps you ll select the word and delete it by pressing Delete. This section shows you how to complete simple editing tasks .

Common Editing and Navigation Keys

Simple line-by-line editing really involves two steps: detecting the error in the document and correcting it. This means you ll use a combination of navigation keys and editing keys to make the changes you need to make. Table 4-1 lists the keys you ll use to get around within the document, and Table 4-2 highlights the most common editing keys.

Table 4-1: Keys for Moving Around Within the Document

Pressing This Key	Performs This Action
PageUp	Scrolls the document up one screen
PageDown	Scrolls the document down one screen
Home	Moves the cursor quickly to the left end of a line of text
Ctrl+Home	Moves the cursor to the beginning of the document
End	Moves the cursor quickly to the end of the current line
Ctrl+End	Moves the cursor to the end of the document
Right arrow	Moves the cursor to the right one character or space
Ctrl+Right arrow	Moves the cursor to the right one word at a time
Left arrow	Moves the cursor to the left one character or space
Ctrl+Left arrow	Moves the cursor to the left one word at a time
Up arrow	Moves the cursor one line up
Down arrow	Moves the cursor one line down
F5	Displays the Find And Replace dialog box with the Go To tab selected so that you can enter the number of the page you want to go to

Table 4-2: Keys for Simple Line Editing

Pressing This Key	Performs This Action
Backspace	Erases the character to the left of the cursor
Enter	Completes a paragraph and moves the cursor to the next line in the document
Delete	Deletes the character immediately to the right of the cursor
Insert	Toggles the typing mode from Insert to Overtype mode

Browsing by Object

Word gives you another handy way to move through your document, but it s so small you might miss it. In the bottom of the vertical scroll bar in the Word window, you ll see a small circle with two double-arrows above and below it. That s the Browse Object feature. When you click the circle, a palette of objects appears. You can click the object you want (your choices are Field, Endnote, Footnote, Comment, Section, Page, Go To, Find, Edits, Heading, Graphic, and Table), and then click the up arrows or down arrows to search back or forward through the document. Clicking Go To displays the Go To dialog box, and Find displays the Search dialog box.

For example, suppose that you have been working on a document with two other team members and you want to review the document to see what others have said about it. You can choose Browse By Comment to move from comment to comment and read the comments your teammates have inserted. Or if you re double-clicking the tables in a report, you can choose Browse By Tables to move from one table to another.