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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
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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, and software may contain settings to reverse the operation of these keys to accommodate that.
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Operating systems differ as to whether the keys (pressed without modifier) simply move the view โ€“ e.g. in Mac OS X โ€“ or also the input caret โ€“ e.g. in Microsoft Windows. In right-to-left settings,
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can also be used to scroll a document, although usually by smaller incremental distances. Used together with a
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In most operating systems, if the Page Up or Page Down key is pressed along with the
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will move down or leftwards (instead of right). The keys have been dubbed
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or a combination thereof, they may act the same as the Page keys.
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will move either upwards or rightwards (instead of left) and
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key in editable text, all the text scrolled over will be
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