| Tip 112 | Turn a Small Keyboard into a Big One |
Modern Mac portables and the Apple wireless keyboard have a Delete key, which will delete characters behind the cursor. However, by holding down the Fn key (bottom left of the keyboard), you can turn the Delete key into a forward delete key, which, just like on a full-sized keyboard, will delete characters in front of the cursor.
While we’re on the subject, pressing the Fn key at the same time as the Up/Down cursor keys will turn them into Page Up/Page Down keys. Holding Fn while hitting the Left/Right cursor keys transforms them into Home and End keys, respectively, which will either scroll to the beginning/end of the document or move the cursor to the beginning/end of the line, depending on which ...
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