The 'Home' button takes you to the first cell of the sheet while End to the latest cell with data of that row.
Ctrl-Home will take you to the first cell of the whole sheet (A1) while Ctrl-End to the latest with data on the sheet. More on keyboard navigation here: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Calc_Guide/Navigation_and_selection_shortcuts On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Maggie Butler <mbut...@southgaylord.com> wrote: > I need a keyboard shortcut that will set up the keyboard cursor to > mark text to copy beginning in the far left cell so that I can use the > keyboard cursor to define which cells to the right are to be copied. > > Because I have arthritis in my hands I don’t use the trackpad, and if > I move the mouse to the right selecting cells it leaps too fast to > control. The only solution I have found so far is to cursor to the far > right cell I want and then mark the text (going left) with the mouse > because the left edge of the spreadsheet stops the cursor. This is > awkward and time-consuming. > > The OSX (and OO) keyboard shortcut “Command C” only marks one cell (or > pre-selected text) to copy. The functionality I need was available in > Lotus 123. The lack of it in Open Office is the only reason I have > not moved my larger spreadsheets to OO. > > I would like the same kind of command for the keyboard cursor to mark > cells for "Command Delete" but that is less critical. > > Thanks for any help, Maggie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
