This short tutorial will show you how to master the art of "Cut Copy & Paste" Using your mouse and keyboard.

Even if you know next to nothing about using a computer. You can learn some simple tricks that will do complex work for you in no time at all. Great Stuff Here

First, we will learn how to Copy and Paste

1 - Place your cursor in front of the first word in the text you want to copy . Now, hold down your left mouse button as you drag your mouse over the selection of text you wish to copy.

The block of text will be highlighted as you drag your mouse cursor over the text. You can select some or all of the text by going right to left or left to right it does not really matter. Once you selected the text you want to copy, let go of the left mouse button.

2 - After the text is selected, position your cursor over the selected section.

3 - Right click on it.

4 - A drop down menu will appear, from that drop down menu select copy.

5 - Now go to the document, note pad or location you want to paste the text into.

6 - Place your cursor in the section of the document where you want the text or image to appear

7 -Right click.

8 - A drop down menu will appear, from the drop down menu select paste. The copied text/image will appear.

Walla! Walla! ----- Piece of Cake

And you thought it was going to be complicated

Ok now let's learn to Cut and Paste

1- The only difference between copy and cut is that when you cut the text/image it is removed completely from the document that you cut it from and not just copied, but it can still be pasted.

2 Follow steps: 2 through 8 from, Copy and Paste above.

You have now mastered the techniques to Cut Copy and Paste Text and Images.

Your Doing Great

How To Cut Copy and Paste Using The Keyboard

Way back when before the invention of the mouse, everything on a computer was done using the keyboard. Today, you can still do TONS of stuff with the keyboard that you could never accomplish with your mouse. You just have to know how.

What can you do with the keyboard? Well you can clear all of the stuff on your screen, safely minimizing it to the bottom of your screen where your Task bar lives (next to the Start button) by holding down the Windows logo (Microsoft Logo) key and pressing the letter 'D'.

"Give It Try" Amazing!!

The Logo key is on the bottom row between the Ctrl and Alt keys to the left of the spacebar and to its right. Try it. Hold down the logo key... press 'D'... and release 'D'... then release the logo key. Easy Huh!!

If you press the Logo key alone, nothing happens until you release the key. Press and release it to activate the Start Menu. Simply Amazing when you know some little tricks.

Want to copy some text from a web site and paste it into a Word processor such as Word, Notepad, or even e-mails. Open the document you want to copy from, then open the document, E-mail, web Page you want to copy too. Place you mouse cursor over the text and highlight (left click on the mouse) the text you want to copy) then hold down the Ctrl key and press the 'C' key. You won't see anything happen.

Dont Panic

Now, move to the document you want the text to appear in, click once where you want the next to appear to set the cursor. Then, hold down the Ctrl key, and press the 'V' key. The text will appear. If it doesn't, you didn't highlight the text from the previous document.

Remember to left click on the mouse to highlight the text you want. We just learned that in first part of the tutorial remember, sure you do. You can highlight text with the keyboard, too.

Now give it a try, make sure your cursor is located in the body of this email. Doesn't matter where its only a test, you can't hurt anything. Now, hold down the Shift key and press the right arrow key. See the text being highlighted? It's being 'selected'! You can use the arrow keys to go up, down, right, left what ever you like.

Wow -- Magic!!!

Select as much as you desire, then do the Ctrl + C thing to copy, and Ctrl + V to paste.

Here but a few more keyboard "shortcuts" that can come in handy for you.

Ctrl + C -----Copy
Ctrl + V ----- Paste
Ctrl + Z ----- Undo
Ctrl + X ------Cut

Helpful hint, if your not comfortable with cutting and pasting text. Make a back up copy of the document your working on just in case. Remember you can use the Ctrl + Z key to undo (restore) what you cut as long as you do not close out of the original document.

If you leave the original document your system will ask you if you want to save the changes to the document, if you say "yes" the text you cut is removed from that document. E-mails work a little different, you can copy from an open email, but you cannot cut from it.

Go ahead, give it a try, do it now.

I hope this tutorial has been helpful.

Mike Pulli

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