Seeking small bluetooth keyboard with Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys

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Seeking small bluetooth keyboard with Home/End/PageUp/PageDown keys that has same "feel" as Apple wireless keyboard. Found these:

keyboard1 (Apple-copy-cat silver, which I like)
keyboard2 (regular black, not as aesthetically pleasing)

Any experience with the keystroke quality/feel (for above or other offerings)? Compared to the Apple wireless/bluetooth keyboard? How about bluetooth-connection quality to a MacBook Pro/Air?

Love the keystroke feel + overall design/aesthetics of aforementioned Apple wireless keyboard–but it doesn't have the aforementioned keys, which I need to be in my comfort zone in "Microsoft Excel power user" mode, among a few other things. Yes, am aware of key remapping, but too cumbersome and hard for muscle-memory to remember.

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The fn key + up/down/left/right arrows give you that functionality on the Apple keyboard. Earlier iterations of Apple keyboards were labeled as such but it still works on the newer unlabeled ones.

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You can do page up/down and home/end on a Macbook keyboard by using the fn and the arrow keys:

fn+↑ is PageUp
fn+↓ is PageDown
fn+← is Home
fn+→ is End

MacOS – change the behavior of the Home and End keys on an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad

One option is to create ~/Library/KeyBindings/ and save a property list like this as ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict:

{
  "\UF729"  = moveToBeginningOfLine:;
  "\UF72B"  = moveToEndOfLine:;
  "$\UF729" = moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:;
  "$\UF72B" = moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:;
}

Quit and reopen applications to apply the changes. Note that DefaultKeyBinding.dict is not supported by some applications like Xcode or Firefox.

In Terminal you can assign home (↖) to control-a and end (↘) to control-e from Preferences > Settings > Keyboard. That will leave you with no key combinations to scroll to the top or bottom of a window though.

It might be easier to just use the default keybindings. In most native text views:

control-A or option-up goes to the beginning of a paragraph
control-E or option-up goes to the end of a paragraph
command-left goes to the beginning of a line
command-right goes to the end of a line

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