end key
{{Short description|Computer keyboard key}}
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The {{Key press|End}} key is a key commonly found on desktop and laptop keyboards. The key has the opposite effect of the Home key. In some limited-size keyboards where the {{Key press|End}} key is missing the same functionality can be reached via the key combination of {{key press|Fn|Right}} or Control + End keys
Its standard symbol {{key top|end|}} as described in ISO/IEC 9995-7, i.e. {{unichar|21F2|south east arrow to corner}}, is used on some full-size keyboards instead of a possibly localized text label.
Microsoft Windows
In modern Microsoft Windows text editing applications, the {{Key press|End}} key is primarily used to move the cursor to the end of the line in which it is positioned. When the text is not editable, it is used to scroll to the end of the document; this can also be done in editable text if the key is pressed along with {{Key press|Control}}.
The {{Key press|End}} key can also be used to highlight all the characters after the cursor in a certain line if pressed along with {{Key press|Shift}} in editable text.
macOS
In most macOS applications, the key works differently than on other platforms. When the key is pressed, the window scrolls to the bottom, while the cursor position does not change at all; that is, the {{Key press|End}} key is tied to the window, not the text box being edited.{{cite web |url=http://evansweb.info/articles/2005/03/24/mac-os-x-and-home-end-keys |title=Mac OS X and Home / End keys |access-date=2006-10-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061106225709/http://evansweb.info/articles/2005/03/24/mac-os-x-and-home-end-keys |archive-date=2006-11-06 }} On Apple keyboards that do not have an End key, one can press {{key press|Option|right}} for the End key functionality described above. To get the same result as the Windows platform (that is, going to the end of the current line of text), press {{key press|Command|right}}. In most single-line text fields, you can also instead press the down arrow key. An application can be used to change this behaviour.{{Cite web|url=http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/63972/104745|title=Macos - Remap "Home" and "End" to beginning and end of line}}
Linux
In Linux, the {{Key press|End}} key has basically the same functionality as it does on Windows. It positions the cursor at the end of a line in editable text, and otherwise scrolls a scrollable document to the end. Also, like Windows, the {{Key press|End}} key can be used to highlight all the characters after the cursor in a certain line if pressed along with {{Key press|shift}} in editable text.
Non-GUI applications
In older screen-oriented, text-based (non-GUI) applications, the user pressed the "End" key to indicate that they had finished entering data on a particular "screen".