It's simple to do - modify your custom-master-page (BTW the best practice is to NOT edit "default.master" but always use your own custom-master-page - Google how to create a custom master if you are not familiar with this)
If you are working in Visual Studio (creating a site for deployment) locate and open your custom-master-page in the "Modules" folder in Solution Explorer...
Or if using SharePoint Designer, open your site and locate your custom-master-page in the "Master Page" folder...
Once your custom master page is open locate </head> (the closing head tag) and just above it paste the following code...
<style type="text/css">
#bottomPagingCellWPQ2 {text-align: left;}
</style>
Once added the code (in the larger context of the code block) should look something like this...
Save and deploy (from visual studio) Or Save and Check-in (SharePoint Designer). Refresh your site and now the page-advance-control is located to left in the list view.
If you need to document what you've just accomplished: "Updated the master page to include an inline style that overrides the "text-align" attribute from "center" to "left" on the "bottomPagingCellWPQ2" (id) table-data-cell (which is where the list-view page advance control is located)."
Users you are developing for, who have list views with many columns, will thoroughly appreciate this enhancement. Moving the page-advance-control to a handy spot will keep them from continually scrolling to the middle of each new page.
