How to Copy and Paste

There are a couple essential skills needed for using computers these days.

Click: To click the left mouse button.
Right-click: Clicking the right button on the mouse. Ctrl+Click for a Mac.
Click and Drag: Click and hold the left mouse button and move to the mouse pointer to another position.
Highlight: Click and Drag over text. Clack at the beginning of the text and hold as you drag the mouse pointer to the end of the text. As you move the text will become highlighted.
Copy: Temporarily save text (or images, files, etc) to a invisible place called the Clipboard.
Paste: Retrieve the text (or anything else) that is stored on that mysterious Clipboard.

So to move text around, highlight the the text, by clicking and dragging. Then right-click on the the highlighted text, and click on Copy. Then move your mouse pointer to a place where you can type and right-click again. Click on Paste and your highlighted text will appear!

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