Move Playhead

Hello, all,
I know there is a command to move a region to the playhead position. Can we move the playhead to the beginning of a region? If so, what's the command?
Thanx!

As CCT said, the command is called Go to Selection Start. The default keystroke is shift-return. In the US preset (and I think some other presets), the keystroke is control-home (which is what Erik said).
If you have a keyboard with no home key, the equivalent of control-home is fn-control-left arrow.
I tried but it didn't work. I even deleted the one that was assigned and reassigned "Cmd Arrow", but no luck.
I think what's getting you into trouble is that there are two commands called Go to Selection Start. You'll see that if you type that exact phrase in the search box in the key commands window. They are different commands, and they are assigned to different keys. It's just unfortunate that they happen to have the same exact name.
One command with that name (Go to Selection Start) is a Global Command. That's the one you want. The other one is strictly for the Sample Editor. When you "deleted the one that was assigned" you had probably selected the wrong command (i.e., the one that was associated with the Sample Editor). Pick the other one and you'll see that it probably is already assigned to one of the keystrokes I mentioned. Or don't even bother opening the key commands window. Just select a region in the Arrange window, make sure the playhead is not at the start of the region, and press these two keystrokes:
shift-return
control-home
I bet one of those keystrokes will make the playhead jump to the start of the region.
Remember that Return and Enter are not the same key.

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Rolf-Ørjan Høgset wrote:
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https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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Message was edited by: Hoops24

Hi,
welcome to the forum,
Choose Color Corrector 3 way from effects>Color Correction.
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G.

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