The tutor finds the “keys” to missing sections of text.

Especially on a laptop, when I’m typing a post, a chunk of text suddenly disappears. I’ve got in the habit of right-clicking, then clicking undo, to resurrect the accidentally deleted text. If I don’t notice in time, however, I lose that section so have to retype it.

I’ve always known that, unwittingly, I must be hitting a hotkey that causes the deletion of the text. Today I researched the problem, and now I know perhaps some of them:

Shift Home selects from the cursor to the beginning of the line.

Shift End selects from the cursor to the end of the line.

Shift PageUp selects from the cursor to the beginning of the text.

Shift PageDown selects from the cursor to the end of the text.

As howtogeek.com points out: once you select the text, whatever you type afterwards replaces it. You don’t have to purposely delete it.

I’ve tried the four shortcut combinations above: they all work in this context. Clearly, I’ve been unwittingly selecting those combinations. On a laptop, typing in the dark, it’s easy to imagine.

I’ll be talking more about hotkeys in future posts:)

Source:

howtogeek.com

whatis.techtarget.com

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.