Cursor movement in Numbers (again)

I love the keyboard shortcut for adding a column or row, using Option and an arrow key.
But I run into difficulties when editing text, as I rely heavily on the shortcut to move to start or end of words. According to Numbers Help, Option–Right Arrow should move the cursor to the end of current or next word.
I am confused, Numbers seems to almost always do the 'add column', but occasionally does 'move to end of word'.
Any help?

John,
It occurred to me that you may not be aware that in Numbers '09 you can add depth to the formula bar edit window, which makes it much more useful for editing large blocks of text and long expressions.
Just drag the sizing handle down.
Regards,
Jerry

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A small but very irritating bug in Mail: after pressing the spacebar after typing an apostrophe in a word such as "we're", the cursor moves to the left i.e. backwards, and not to the right, effectively deleting a space and not creating one.

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found this on another websites forum .... it worked
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Rich -
Thank you for making an excellent point, which as usual, hadn't occurred to me.
Of course, old-timers like me would say that what SAP should do is:
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Regards
djh

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http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
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