Keyboard Shortcut to Jump Over Words

15 oct 2008

This simple keyboard shortcut allows you to jump over words while editing text in almost any Windows application. CTRL+Right arrow jumps the cursor forward to the next word while CTRL+Left arrow will move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word. This is more efficient than using arrow keys where you can move only one character at a time.

This simple keyboard shortcut allows you to jump over words while editing text in almost any Windows application.

CTRL+Right arrow jumps the cursor forward to the next word while CTRL+Left arrow will move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word. This is more efficient than using arrow keys where you can move only one character at a time.

And the keyboard shortcut works in the address bars of web browsers as well.

http://www.readerszone.com Readerszone

Amit this is a really useful tip
http://tipsandtricks.nogoodatcoding.com no.good.at.coding

And holding down SHIFT while you do this will usually help you select complete words instead of one letter at a time.

These are old keyboard tricks I’ve been using right from the start.
http://random-thoughts-and-rambling.blogspot.com/ Kannan Ekanath

Good tip! Just that I have been using it for ages that I am surprised how this got into a “hi-tech blog” which I always lookup for new tricks and techniques :)

Perhaps, the law of averages catching on?
http://www.vijayforvictory.com Vijay

Hi Amit,

True; this is one of the shortcut, being used so often by most of us.

simple but powerful tip.

I wonder how did you make this cool gif file for this. Are there any tool to create this?

I am eager to hear that.
Badka

Very simple advice
Mothi

Did not expect such an old tip from you. Really astonished that you discovered this so late..
Prashant

Seems your running out of ideas. Been using this since stone age. Please refrain from posting oldies or make a new category such as “Golden Tips” / “Classic Tips”
http://dpstechno.blogspot.com/ Debiprasad

It’s a good shortcut, I use it since a long time, but never thought about posting this in blog. This post reminded me to post some similar shortcuts in my blog. Here is the link Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Text Editing
Michelle Robinson

For everyone who is complaining about this tip…did you ever consider that there might be people out there (like me) who just might not have known about this rather handy keyboard shortcut? And that just maybe he was posting this “old, stone age” tip to try to let people know about it who might not be aware of it? Give him a break! Geesh!

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