Keyboard shortcuts/missing keys?

Hi there,
I switched to Mac today from PC and am having quite a bit of trouble with the keyboard. Is there an equivalent to the Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys that I can use? I tried searching for help online but couldn't find anything.
I'm not sure if this is part of the problem but I have a French keyboard.
Thanks in advance for your help.
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Welcome to discussions and Macs.
Is your keyboard an Apple one? If so, look at the keyboard, on your right, after the main querty part, will be two blocks of keys. The first block has F14,15 and 16, under that is; help, home, page up, then under those keys; delete,end and page down. The farthest right block is numbers etc.
Hope this is helpful,
Miriam

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