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Online Learning Boot Camp: Cutting & Pasting Text

The ability to copy from one document to another and from one place in a document to another is one of the major benefits of word processing. Here's one way to do it.

Select the text or graphics you want to copy. Do this by holding down your left mouse button while moving the cursor over the items you want to copy on any document or web page.

 

When everything that you want to copy has been selected, place your mouse cursor over the highlighted information and click the right mouse button.
A pop-up window will appear on your screen.

Left click on Copy.

This will place the highlighted material in a "electronic" clipboard on your computer. This material will stay in the clipboard until you copy other material or turn off power to your machine.

 

Open up the document into which you want to paste the material you just copied.
If it's the same document, skip this step.

*Note that you can paste into e-mails, bulletin board messages, word processing packages, etc..

 

Move your mouse cursor to the destination where you want to place the copied material, then click the right mouse button.

 

A pop-up window will appear.

Left click on Paste.

The items that you copied from the original document will now appear in the new destination and/or on the new document.

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