"home" Button and "end" Button

Hi all,
I've just purchased a Apple Wireless Keyboard. Can anyone please tell me what is the actual funtion of BOTH the "home" Button (located at the left-hand-side of the 'page up' button) & the "end" Button (located at the left-hand-side of the 'page down' button).
Currently they behaved axactly like the page-up and page-down fuctions. Are'nt they supposed to "bring my typing-curson to either the BEGINING or the END" of my current typing sentence?
Currently, i can only achieve that ("bring my typing-curson to either the BEGINING or the END" of my current typing sentence) by holding "control" and press the "right-arrow"/ or "left-arrow"
Thanks,
Forrest

Hello Forrest2828:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
This is the only knowledge base article that I could find that seemed pertinent. I never use those keys myself (I probably should):
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25618
The article references OS X 10.3, but it works the same under OS X 10.4
Barry
Message was edited by: Barry Hemphill

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