Saturday, October 21, 2006

Copy and Paste in Windows

For our first tip we will make it a very simple one.

Copy and Paste using mouse right click
With your cursor at the beginning of your text or object, click and hold the left mouse button, while pulling your mouse over the text or object. This will highlight the area you want to copy. Now release the mouse button. With the cursor over the highlighted text, right click the mouse and you will see a popup box, and select 'copy'. Now place your mouse cursor over the new area you wish the text or object to be placed, right click your mouse again, and select 'paste'.

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Copy and Paste using your keyboard (this is what I prefer)
With your cursor at the beginning of your text or object, click and hold the left mouse button, while pulling your mouse over the text or object. This will highlight the area you want to copy. Now release the mouse button. Now press Ctrl+C on your keyboard. Now place your mouse cursor over the new area you wish the text or object to be placed, now press Ctrl+V on your keyboard.

If you want to Cut and Paste use Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C and it will remove the original item and paste it instead of leaving the original item.

This tip will work in any Windows application.

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