The art of copy and paste.

[Plastic Nev]

I have been asked this a few times, "How do you do a copy and paste?"

I will try to make this simple to understand.

There are two basic methods of creating the copy in the first place, the first applies if you want to copy all of a document, or page, whether it is a word document, a word pad document, or even a notepad document or a full web page.

Click on "edit" then "select all" you will see everything will then be highlighted, go back to "Edit" and click "Copy" everything on that page will now be stored in the clipboard, this is normally hidden, so don't worry about where the clipboard is, next go to the page you wish to paste everything you have copied. If on this forum, a "Post Reply" box. Again click "Edit" then "Paste" all you have copied will be magically transferred to the page.

There is a quicker way to copy and paste if only a small portion of the original is needed to be transferred, this is done by manually highlighting a section.

To do this, go to the end of the bit you want to copy with your mouse pointer or cursor and hold down the left click button, then move the mouse over to the left and up the page, you will see the highlighting happen as you go. Just stop when you get to where you want the start of the portion to be. Conversely you can also copy in the reverse of that by starting at the beginning and moving right and down the page.

Release the left click button and all you have highlighted will stay that way.

Next, with the mouse pointer over the bit you have highlighted or at least near to it, right click, a menu will appear, click "Copy", again this is then sent to the clipboard.

Open a reply box, or other place you wish the copy to go to, left click it if no cursor is blinking at you, when the cursor appears and blinks, then right click, this time select "Paste" and the copy will appear.

I hope this is of great help to our new and as yet unfamiliar to computer members.

I tend to use this second method, even for large amounts as you can be more selective of what you wish to copy, ready for pasting elsewhere.

it is also useful when you need to copy and post a website address.

Nev.

[PseFrank]

Copy & Paste from the Command Prompt

Here's a helpful tip when wanting to Copy & Paste details from the command prompt.

Sometimes someone who's helping us will ask for details that can only be got from the Command Prompt. When there's alot of information to record it can be a pain to have to type it all out.....Try this >

• Hit the Flag key + R
• Type "cmd"........without the quotes. Press Enter.
• Right click anywhere in black space. Click on Mark from the dropdown menu.
• Press down and hold the Shift Key. Click on the first letter of the text you want to copy.
• With the Shift key still pressed left click anywhere below and to the right of the text you wish to copy. ( It will turn white )
• Hit the Enter Key.
• Open up Word or Notepad or whatever your favourite text editor is.
• Click where you want the text to begin.
• Hit Ctrl + V on your keyboard.
• Hit Ctrl + S to save the file. ( Just a bit of insurance )

Now you can navigate to your forum post and when you hit Ctrl + V again this will paste your text into the forum post.

[muppet rebecca]

Thanks you guys are the best....I was just thinking yesterday how to copy a full document in word...Couldn't for the life of me remember...*huggles you both*...

[ErikAlbert]

Thanks you guys are the best....I was just thinking yesterday how to copy a full document in word...Couldn't for the life of me remember...*huggles you both*...

Next time we teach you the "cut/paste", a mutant of the "copy/paste". ;)