Beginning of a sentence shortcut?

I am not sure about 2007 version, but try your Help menu "Move the insertion point"

The closest in the older versions uses the CTRL UP Arrow for one paragraph up, or just the home key for beginning of line. See:

Question: Hey, does anyone know a shortcut key [sequence] ...?

Answer: No one knows, here or anywhere.

Comment: WorkPerfect does have its "Highlight to next Period/Stop character (or any other next-keyed character [viz., Copy/Move "." ... Copy/Move]), but you no doubt already knew that; else, why would you ask about Word? Microsoft was compelled to use different keyboard command assignments/routines (for a different "look and feel") in order to (hopefully) avoid (or, as it turned out, defend against) patent infringement while replicating WordPerfect in order to create Word. Because of this, there were some WordPerfect editing facilities that Microsoft was simply never able to duplicate. The shortcut key-input sequence you are seeking is one of them. You will have to be content with extra keystrokes when using Word.

The table below show Word keyboard shortcuts vs WordPerfect. Note that "Select to Sentence End (or keyed character), or equivalent, is not included. If you are accustomed to WordPerfect...you could install that and use either it or Word. WordPerfect docs can be readily converted to Word documents if needed.

"Microsoft was compelled to use different keyboard command assignments/routines (for a different "look and feel") in order to (hopefully) avoid (or, as it turned out, defend against) patent infringement while replicating WordPerfect in order to create Word. Because of this, there were some WordPerfect editing facilities that Microsoft was simply never able to duplicate."

This may be true, that Microsoft had to avoid copying Wordperfect commands, but SpeedScript, which ran on the Commodore 64 (and possibly on the Vic 20) had beginning and end of word, sentence, or paragraph commands. Surely Wordperfect could not have later patented the concept!

Thanks, Ron. It appears that Cornelius' advise (for a key-mouse sequence) has made my post irrelevant anyway.

My point was not with regard to copying commands, per se, but copying the word processor in general...in which, in Word's reworking (many would say, stealing) of WordPerfect, for some reason it was not possible to select a sentence with a key sequence alone; if MS could have done so, no doubt they would.

I was not familiar with the older word processors you mentioned, in particular with regard to their user input orientation. My guess would be that they were similar to (clones of) the original biggie word processor, WordStar...a key and control key oriented word processor...and hence difficult to use without practice...and used predominantly in vocational (office...IBM) settings. It was that difference in overall processor design I was referring when I spoke of patent infringement. The aim in Word development was for the most part to replicate the overall functionality of WordPerfect, but because Word could not do so by merely reassigning function keys (which would have infringed WordPerfect's conceptual approach) it was left to access the same "functions" using only control-key sequences (until the full development of implementation of GUI as we know it today).

Before Word or WordPerfect, WordStar (and its key-oriented clones) was supplanted by menu-oriented processors (MultiMate and WangOIS and their clones) because they were easier, and less error prone, for all users, not just trained users. Then came WordPerfect (it was both menu oriented for casual users and key oriented for vocational/serious users) which supplanted everything--Wang fell also because it did not fully appreciate the shift to PC until too late--and WordPerfect would have remained the dominant word processor today if only it had been willing to be acquired by Microsoft. In fact the very name, MS Word, owes its existence to WordPerfect... as Microsoft sought to blur the distinction (to market Word as WordPerfect's equal) at the time during which WordPerfect was rapidly becoming the universal standard.

So, it's basically the difference in overall processor design, the user input orientation thing, I was referring when I spoke of patent infringement.

Long ago I created two macros, one to insert a bookmark in a document and one to find it. That way I can set the bookmark in a long document, go to other pages, and then back to the exact point I was at before.

Create a macro to search for the next period character and paste a menu icon in your tool bar. It is not that hard to do.

The idea behind the original inquiry was to select a sentence...not jump to end of sentence. How will a macro accomplish selecting?

The bookmarking is a good tool for some, but doesn't seem to address the question. But still, a good technique.

Thanks, that works great.

The is Guest #2. My apologies for wasting my time, and yours. Your inquiry asked for a key sequence (implicitly, no mouse) for selecting a sentence; and, indeed, there is none. Likewise, since there is no sentence-select key sequence, there is no way in Word to write a macro to select any sentence anywhere.

The Ctrl-Click (key-mouse) sequence for selecting a sentence is convenient (especially with lap top), but has one draw back which the non-Word processor mentioned does not: you can only select one sentence.