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How to copy and paste text

If you find yourself in a situation where you need to type certain text over and over again, it is faster and a less burden on your fingers to just copy and paste it as necessary.  There are three ways of doing this basic operation - purely by mouse, purely by keyboard or use both mouse and keyboard.

Using the mouse

To copy and paste text using your mouse, follow these steps:

1. Position the mouse cursor at either the beginning or end of the text you want to duplicate.

2. Press and hold down the left mouse button and drag it across the text you want to copy.  The text will highlight (the color gets reversed, so if the text was black on a white background, it becomes white on a black background).

3. To copy the text, you can do any the following:

a. Right-click the text. A pop-up menu will appear beside the mouse cursor.  Select the Copy command from the list.

b. From the program menu, click Edit > Copy.

4. Position the mouse cursor where you want the text you just copied to appear and left-click.

5. To paste the text, you can do any of the following:

a. Right-click and select the Paste command from the pop-up menu.

b. From the program menu, click Edit > Paste.

Basically that's all there is to it.  Click here to see some additional notes.

Using the keyboard

To copy and paste text using your keyboard, follow these steps:

1. Use the arrow keys to position the cursor at either the beginning or end of the text you want to duplicate.

2. Press and hold down the Shift key while using the arrow keys to highlight the text.  (The color gets reversed, so if the text was black on a white background, it becomes white on a black background.)  You can also hold down both Shift and Ctrl keys while using the arrow keys to select entire words, lines and paragraphs instead of just one letter at a time.

3. To copy the text that was highlighted, you can do any of the following:

a. Press the Alt key.  The program's menu bar will activate. Use the arrow keys to move the selection to the Edit > Copy command.

b. Press Ctrl+C.

4. Use the arrow keys again to position the cursor where you want the text you just copied to appear.

5. To paste the text, you can do any of the following:

a. Press the Alt key then use the arrow keys to move the selection to the Edit > Paste command.

b. Press Ctrl+V.

Basically that's all there is to it.  Click here to see some additional notes.

Using both mouse and keyboard

To copy and paste text using both the mouse and keyboard, follow these steps:

1. Use you mouse or keyboard's arrow keys to position the cursor at the beginning or end of the text you want to duplicate.  In the case of the mouse, you have to left-click to update the location of the mouse cursor.

2. Press and hold down the Shift key then move your mouse to the other end of the text you want to copy and left-click.  This will highlight the text (the color gets reversed, so if the text was black on a white background, it becomes white on a black background).

3. To copy the text that was highlighted, you can do any of the following:

a. Right-click the text. A pop-up menu will appear beside the mouse cursor.  Select the Copy command from the list.

b. From the program menu, click Edit > Copy.

c. Press the Alt key.  The program's menu bar will activate. Use the arrow keys to move the selection to the Edit > Copy command.

d. Press Ctrl+C.

4. Position the mouse cursor where you want the text you just copied to appear and left-click.  Alternatively, you can use the arrow keys do the same thing.

5. To paste the text, you can do any of the following:

a. Right-click and select the Paste command from the pop-up menu.

b. From the program menu, click Edit > Paste.

c. Press the Alt key then use the arrow keys to move the selection to the Edit > Paste command.

d. Press Ctrl+V.

Basically that's all there is to it.  See some additional notes below.

Notes

You only need to do steps 1 to 3 only once.  If you need to paste the same text somewhere else, just do steps 4 and 5 as necessary.  Of course, you have to do the entire procedure again if you need to copy and paste a different set of text.

In general, the same procedure can also be applied when you want to duplicate non-text items, like pictures, files and objects.  They all follow the same generic steps: select > copy > reposition > paste.

Besides copy and paste, there's also cut and paste, which is slightly different.  Instead of making a duplicate of the text, picture, file or object, you are actually moving it to another location.  This is essentially the same as doing a copy and paste, then delete the original copy.  The keyboard equivalent for cutting is Ctrl+X instead of Ctrl+C.

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