Copy and Paste - How to Cut, Copy and Paste in seconds! - making copies, moving text, editing on the computer

How To Copy and Paste

With your mouse, place your cursor at the beginning of the text in the box below, then click and hold the left mouse button while pulling your mouse over the text.

This should highlight the text. Then release the left mouse button. Now, with the cursor over the highlighted text, right click the mouse for options, and select 'copy'.

Now over the empty box below, right click your mouse again, and select 'paste' and you will have copied and pasted the text. To cut and paste is the same as described above, except you choose 'cut', instead of 'copy'.

Practice what you just learned on the forms below!

Shortcuts

To Highlight Everything: Press 'Ctrl' and 'A' at the same time.

To Copy: Highlight an area, as shown above, then hold 'Ctrl' + 'C' (For Mac users 'Apple' + 'C').
To Paste: Click your mouse where you want the text pasted, and then press 'Ctrl' + 'V' (For Mac users 'Apple' + 'S'.

The ability to cut, copy, and paste is found in most programs. Sometimes, the ability to do these tasks via the mouse is disabled, but is still quickly achieved through the use of the shortcuts outlined above.

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