How many people actually use the Home/End/etc. keys?

[Kingdaro]

Expanding upon the question in the title, how many of you guys actually use the six keys that (on most keyboards) reside in their own little rectangle? I refer to the insert, delete, home, end, page up, and page down keys.

A while ago, I only used the main "block" of keys, while using the arrow keys and mouse to navigate the cursor around the text field. I only noticed recently that using the home and end keys to go to the beginning and end of text fields had become an automatic habit, and thinking about it, I seldom see anyone use these keys.

Out of curiosity, how often do you guys use these keys, if at all?

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[Mega-Bear]

I use home and end all the time while typing, and page up/down in a lot of games. Apart from that, I don't think I use them very much at all.

[End]

I use Home and End religiously, I use Page Up and Page Down every so often and I never use Delete or Insert.

lol I used the End key while writing this post

[Blockzillahead]

the only ones I use is delete, page up, page down. the rest are useless for me and i never touched them.

[Nonnel]

I use the home key to open RTB.

[Steve5452]

I use the numpad Page Up and Page Down keys because they're easier to reach than the normal Page Up and Page Down keys. I also use Home and End for text editing. I use delete to go back, only thing I don't use is Insert because it's like useless.

[Nickelob Ultra]

home, end, delete are all used very often.  pigup and pigdown used sparingly.  insert used for steam overlay.

[Johnny Blockhead]

What do these keys do?
I just found out I have them...

[Epicduke]

I use Home, End, pg up, and pg dn all the time.

[sir dooble]

I have never used Insert.
I very rarely use Home. I pretty much always just press a Home button on-screen if needed.
I have never used the End button.

I use the Delete button for commands, like Ctrl-Alt-Del, as well as using it when deleting files, in which case I use Shift-Delete to permanently delete.

I will use PageUp/PageDown in games. Most often it is for chat functions, like in Blockland. I always have my chat in-game set to display the last page of chat, and then I'll Page-Up/Down if I miss something.
I never use them for web-browsing or Word Documents.

[Alyx Vance]

I use the Home, End, Page up/down, and Delete.
Basically all 6 keys except the insert key.

Scroll Lock, Pause/Break, and whatever the key with the dropdown menu and the cursor is are pretty much useless.

[sir dooble]

Scroll Lock, Pause/Break, and whatever the key with the dropdown menu and the cursor is are pretty much useless.

I don't think there are less-used keys than Scroll Lock, Pause/Break and the Menu Key.

Maybe you might use it in a certain profession, but I can't really think when.
I'm sure most programmes or professions that would use it probably have easier to use GUI's.


Also, I pretty much never use the "Alt Gr" or "Alt Graphics" key, and only just found out it's purpose from googling it.
It does alternate characters. These vary by keyboards. On UK/Ireland keyboards it does this;
AaÁá  -  EeÉé  -  UuÚú  -  IiÍí  -  OoÓó  -  4$€ 

Also, it does ¦ which I have been trying to work out how to do forever.

[Elecro]

i use home and end while playing toontown, lol.

[ChexGuy331]

occasionally. I also use them in games for misc things like netgraph toggles

[Nonnel]

i use home and end while playing toontown, lol.

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