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Old 06-22-2021, 12:00 AM   #1
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Keyboard navigation in Calibre: go to top or end of index?

It's possible I'm missing the obvious, but there's something I can't find, and it doesn't appear to be in Calibre Help.

When I'm in Calibre's main screen, cursor movement keys do as I expect. Up and Down arrow keys and Page Up and Page Down keys move the cursor by row or by the page length of the part of the library displayed on screen.

What I'm looking for is a keyboard combination that will take me to the first or last row of the complete index.

I have many thousands of volumes indexed in Calibre. Do that, and you accumulate duplicates. I have, and it was time for house cleaning. A plugin called Find Duplicates is just the thing. But there are more dupes than I wish to deal with in one sitting, so it's a gradual process. Find and remove a batch of dupes, then end the plugin action. When the plugin exits, my cursor is always left on the last index row, which is tens of thousands of lines from where I want it to be. Getting it back to the top is a PITA.

(My default view is most re4cently added books first It would be nice if the plugin restored the screen I had before invoking it, but I don't know if that's a function it could call from Calibre.)

Are there "Go to first/last row of the index" keyboard combinations?" Things that perform similar functio9ns in various text editors, like Ctrl, Alt or Shift Home and End keys don't appear to do anything in Calibre. (Or not consistently, at least. I did get Ctrl-Home to take me to first line of the Index once or twice, but whether it worked depended on how far down I was in the index list, and I wasn't keeping track of where it stopped working.)

Exiting and restarting Calibre seems to work, but i'd just as soon not have to.

Thanks in advance,
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Dennis
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