Copy, Cut and Paste Lesson


There will be times when you are typing a long document that you need to copy a word or phrase again-an-again, throughout the text.  Instead of re-typing the information over-and-over, there is a simple way to copy and paste the information.  We will start this lesson with an easy copy paste activity.  First, press control a to highlight this entire document.  Next, press control c to copy it—this information will go into the Windows clipboard, which is a place where copied information is stored.  Now, open your word processor.  When a blank page comes up, press control v to paste the text from this page into your word processor.

 
HINT:  If you need to go between your word processor and this page, press and hold the alt key (by the spacebar) and tap the tab key.


Now, we are ready to copy and paste one single word.  The word is pizza.  Press control right arrow to go to the word pizza, just below this paragraph.  Now, press control shift right arrow to highlight the word pizza.  Now, press control c to copy the word pizza.  Finally, tap enter two times and press control v to paste the word pizza.  You will notice that you have the word pizza at the end of your document, two times.  You can keep pressing control v to paste the word pizza again-an-again.  Go to the top of this document using Control Home and highlight the words "Copy, Cut and Paste Lesson."  Now, press Control x to cut the text.  Next, press Control End to move to the bottom of the document.  Hit the Enter key one time.  Finally, press Control v to paste the words "Cut, Copy and Paste Lesson."  Hit Enter key one more time and press Control v to paste the same text.  You now have the words "Cut, Copy and Paste Lesson" two times at the end of your document.  Type different words and practice cutting or copying them, and then pasting them into a different location in the document--it might be fun to paste the word "pizza" at the top of this document.  Go to the internet and find a page you like, highlight some of the text, issuce the Control c to copy, and then Alt Tab back to this document and use Control v to paste it in the location you want.

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