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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: Excel 3 ?'s
Message-ID: <1991May13.025145.8130@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 02:51:45 GMT
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cabruen@athena.mit.edu (Charles Alan Bruen) writes:


>Hello,

>	1. is there any way to move the cursor when editing a formula
>with out having to use the mouse. when I have the text insertion bar
>somewhere and hit the cursor it changes cells. I simply want it to skip
>characters.

  Hold down the option key, then press the right arrow/left arrow etc.
This also works with Option-Home, Option-End.

  (This is sort of documented in the quick reference... It mentions
these things, but it's incorrect.  It says to use Command-arrow, which
just doesn't work)

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