Find the Home and End buttons on a Mac

Find the Home and End buttons on a Mac

If youre using a MacBook keyboard, or the Apple Wireless Keyboard then you might be wondering where the Home and End keys went. Apple likes to keep its keyboards simple, and many classic buttons familiar to PC users are missing from a Mac. Home and End are two buttons that can be really useful. These keys dont have a fixed purpose, but in most applications the Home key is used to return to the beginning of the document, and End is used to move to the end of the document. In an application like Terminal, they are used to move to the beginning and end of the command line. See also: Its not true that Apple keyboards dont feature Home and End keys. Only full-sized Apple keyboards have Home and End buttons though not the smaller Apple Wireless keyboard (or the keyboard found on a MacBook). The Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad isnt the default option with new Apple Macs, so we imagine very few people are getting them when they buy a new Mac. However, if you pick an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad along with your iMac or Mac Pro or pick one up from the store youll find the Home and End keys sitting above the Arrow Keys. Another way to get Home and End buttons is by attaching a non-Apple keyboard to your Mac, either using a standard USB connection or by connecting a wireless keyboard via Bluetooth. But thats no use if youre using a MacBook keyboard, or if youre happy using your smaller Apple Wireless Keyboard. Dont worry though, a shortcut can be used access Home and End keys on an Apple MacBook keyboard. If your Mac doesnt have a Home or End button then you can replicate their functionality by holding Fn (bottom left) and using Left and Right arrow keys. Just hold the Fn key down and use the Left and Right arrow keys to replicate the Home and End keys. Its also worth noting that using Up and Down keys replicate the Page Up and Page Down keys on a PC keyboard. The Home and End buttons work slightly differently on a Mac to a Windows PC. In Microsoft Windows the Home and End keys normally move the cursor to the beginning of the line where the cursor is located; on a Mac it moves the cursor to the beginning of the Document (unless youre using Microsoft Word, where the Home and End keys function the same as on a Windows PC). If this is the functionality youre looking to replicate, then hold the Command key instead of Fn while pressing the Left and Right arrows, this performs the same function. See also: