Need help remapping my keyboard

I just recently purchased an iMac and there are only a few things about the keyboard that I'm having trouble getting around. I need help assigning a different function to a couple of keys.
1.) I need the 'Home' key to go to the beginning of the first word on that line
2.) I need the 'End' key to go to the last letter of last word
3.) I would very much like for the cursor to follow me when I hit page down or page up
Any help would be appreciated. I'm not techy or a 'computer whizz' by any definition of the word so go easy on me if you can!

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Take a look at DoubleCommand (link).
The Home and End keys do work in some applications without extra software... MS Word is one example.
Regards
mrtotes

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input.xkb.layout = 'us' (string)
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input.xkb.variant = '' (string)
input.xkb.layout = 'us' (string)
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EndSection
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