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    Page Up and Page Down keys

    The Page Up and Page Down keys (sometimes abbreviated as PgUp


    and PgDn) are two keys commonly found on computer keyboards.

    The two keys are primarily used to scroll up or down in documents, but
    the scrolling distance varies between different applications. In word
    processors, for instance, they may jump by an emulated physical page
    or by a screen view that may show only part of one page or many pages
    at once depending on zoom factor. In cases when the document is
    shorter than one screenful, Page Up and Page Down often have no The Page Up and Page Down
    visible effect at all. keys among other keys

    Operating systems differ as to whether the keys (pressed without


    modifier) just move the view – e.g. in Mac OS X – or also the input
    caret – e.g. in Microsoft Windows. In right-to-left settings, PgUp will move either upwards or rightwards
    (instead of left) and PgDn will move down or leftwards (instead of right). The keys have been dubbed
    previous page and next page , accordingly.

    The arrow keys and the scroll wheel can also be used to scroll a document, although usually by smaller
    incremental distances. Used together with a modifier key, such as Alt , ⌥ Opt , ^Ctrl or a combination
    thereof, they may act the same as the Page keys.

    In most operating systems, if the Page Up or Page Down key is pressed along with the ⇧ Shift key in
    editable text, all the text scrolled over will be highlighted.

    In some applications, the Page Up and Page Down keys behave differently in caret navigation (toggled with
    the F7 function key in Windows). For a claimed 30% of people, the paging keys move the text in the
    opposite direction to what they find natural,[1] and software may contain settings to reverse the operation of
    these keys to accommodate that.

    In August 2008, Microsoft received the patent #7,415,666 for the functions of the two keys – Page Up &
    Page Down.[2][3]

    See also
    Arrow keys
    Scroll wheel

    References
    1. Wallace, Bob; Elizabeth Houser (1989). PC-Write Reference Manual (3.03 ed.). Seattle, WA:
    QuickSoft, Inc. p. 397.
    2. Microsoft Patents Page Up & Down Keys (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-keyb
    oard-patent,6307.html), 2 September 2008, Aaron Heibert, Tom's Hardware, retrieved at 25
    January 2017
    3. Microsoft patents 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-patents-
    page-up-and-page-down-5000218626/), 29 August 2008, David Meyer, ZDNet, retrieved at 25
    January 2017
    IBM PC keyboard (Windows, US layout)
    PrtScn/ Scroll Pause/
    Esc F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12
    SysRq Lock Break

    Num
    Insert Home PgUp
    Lock
    ⁄ ∗ −

    Delete End PgDn 7 8 9


    +
    4 5 6

    ↑ 1 2 3
    Enter
    0 .
    ← ↓ → Ins Del

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