Cut and Paste or Copy and Paste

I use cut and paste all the time.  It's second nature to me.  If this isn't a tool you are familiar with here's a brief tutorial for the PC.

Whether you work on the computer or just use one at home, the ability to cut and paste text and files is a valuable time-saving technique. The terms "cut and paste" come from the now-obsolete practice of manuscript editing by cutting paragraphs from a written page with scissors and pasting them onto another page. The digital version works similarly, but won’t tire out your hands. ​

Before you can cut and paste you should be familiar with your right mouse button.  Most of us use our left mouse button all the time, when we click on a link.  The right mouse button will open up a menu to choices that you will use in cut and paste and copy and paste.

But first things first.  To either copy or cut you need to select your text - a word, a sentence, a paragraph or a page.  To select:

Select all text

• Click anywhere within the document
• ​Press Ctrl+A on your keyboard to select all text in the document.

Select specific text  - You can also select a specific word, line of text, or one or more paragraphs.

• Place your cursor in front of the first letter of the word, sentence, or paragraphs you want to select.
• Click and hold while you drag your cursor to select the text you want.

Now that your text is selected, what do you want to do with it?  Copying it will copy it to a computer clipboard and you can paste it anywhere - in a new document, in another location in the same document or in another location in the same document.   Copying will leave the original text in the same location.  

Cutting as the name implies is cutting out the text and pasting it somewhere else.

Once your text is selected click on the right mouse button and select copy or cut. Then move your cursor to where you want the text to go.  Right click again and select paste.  Voila!