The most common way to navigate through text is to use use the mouse or the keyboard's cursor keys.
You can move the insertion point within a document by clicking the mouse inside the editor window.
The keystrokes most commonly used to navigate through a document are:
| Keystroke | Description |
| Up | Move the insertion point up one line |
| Down | Move the insertion point down one line |
| Left | Move the insertion point left one character |
| Right | Move the insertion point right one character |
| Home | Move the insertion point to the first non-whitespace character on the line — pressing Home a second time moves the insertion point to the leftmost column |
| End | Move the insertion point to the end of the line |
| PageUp | Move the insertion point up one page |
| PageDown | Move the insertion point down one page |
| Ctrl+Home | Move the insertion point to the start of the document |
| Ctrl+End | Move the insertion point to the end of the document |
| Ctrl+Left | Move the insertion point left one word |
| Ctrl+Right | Move the insertion point right one word |
SEGGER Embedded Studio offers additional movement keystrokes, though most users are more comfortable using repeated simple keystrokes to accomplish the same thing:
| Keystroke | Description |
| Alt+Up | Move the insertion point up five lines |
| Alt+Down | Move the insertion point down five lines |
| Alt+Home | Move the insertion point to the top of the window |
| Alt+End | Move the insertion point to the bottom of the window |
| Ctrl+Up | Scroll the document up one line in the window without moving the insertion point |
| Ctrl+Down | Scroll the document down one line in the window without moving the insertion point |
If you are editing source code, the are source-related keystrokes too:
| Keystroke | Description |
| Ctrl+PgUp | Move the insertion point backwards to the previous function or method. |
| Ctrl+PgDn | Move the insertion point forwards to the next function or method. |