# Jump to start/end of selection **URL:** \ **Category:** Dorico\ **Tags:** feature-request\ **Created:** [January 21, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/jump-to-start-end-of-selection/688962 "2021-01-21T17:15:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_Seltenreich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/michael_seltenreich/32/116410_2.png) [@Michael\_Seltenreich](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Michael_Seltenreich)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/jump-to-start-end-of-selection/688962/1 "2021-01-21T17:15:01Z")
It would be wonderful to have the ability to move the caret to the start/end of a selected passage with the click of a button. ---
**Author:** ![dspreadbury](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/dspreadbury/32/328687_2.png) [@dspreadbury](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/dspreadbury)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/jump-to-start-end-of-selection/688962/2 "2021-01-22T14:46:50Z")
This is a bit of an unusual request. Typically you don’t have both a long selection _and_ the caret visible at the same time. Can you say a bit more about the situations in which you would find this useful? ---
**Author:** ![pianoleo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/pianoleo/32/1609_2.png) [@pianoleo](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/pianoleo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/jump-to-start-end-of-selection/688962/3 "2021-01-22T14:56:49Z")
I can! Copying and pasting to other staves on the same system, or copying and pasting to other locations particularly using the Paste Into Voice command (which requires the caret in order that Dorico knows which voice you want to paste into). ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Seltenreich](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/michael_seltenreich/32/116410_2.png) [@Michael\_Seltenreich](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Michael_Seltenreich)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/jump-to-start-end-of-selection/688962/5 "2021-01-22T15:07:36Z")
The use-case described by @pianoleo is the one that made me request this. But a “jump to beginning/end of slur” or even “jump to next/previous rest” (as to skip over a section where music is present) could be equally useful. ---
**Author:** ![dspreadbury](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/dspreadbury/32/328687_2.png) [@dspreadbury](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/dspreadbury)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/jump-to-start-end-of-selection/688962/6 "2021-01-22T16:38:49Z")
Sorry, Leo, I’m still struggling to picture how this would be useful. You’ve made a big selection and copied it to the clipboard. At this point (I am imagining) the caret is not visible. Now you want to do what? ---
**Author:** ![pianoleo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/pianoleo/32/1609_2.png) [@pianoleo](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/pianoleo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/jump-to-start-end-of-selection/688962/7 "2021-01-22T17:00:46Z")
Excuse the contrived example. Let’s say I want to copy from the third stave to the first stave, dovetailing. Definitely a case for using the caret, as the second stave has completely different note values so going _through_ that stave without the caret will land me in completely the wrong place. It would be quicker if I could just jump to the end of the selection, though. ![ezgif.com-gif-maker](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/original/3X/e/2/e2f86c84eb9aab27530503bc203a5144cf0f19bb.gif) Now I come to think of it I suppose I could put the caret at the end of the selection and then select backwards (which would keep the caret at the end rather than the beginning), but my brain’s not quite wired for that…