How to Copy/Cut Text in a Microsoft Word Document

Do you know the fine points of copying/cutting/pasting text in a Microsoft Word document? There are several different ways to accomplish a task on a computer, but may be the following steps will help you do the task more efficiently.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Personal Computer
• Microsoft Word

1. 

   To copy a piece of text to put somewhere else, select the text you wish to copy.

2. 

   Right click on the highlighted text and choose copy. The text is put in computer memory.

3. 

   Position the cursor at the point the text is to be copied.

4. 

   Right click anywhere in the document, and choose paste. The copied text will be positioned in the document.

5. 

   To cut or delete text and move it to another place, select the text you wish to cut or move.

6. 

   Right click anywhere in the document and choose cut. The text will disappear and be put in computer memory.

7. 

   Position the cursor at the point the text is to be placed, right click, and choose paste.

8. 

   The text will be moved to the new location.

Tips & Warnings

• When you COPY text, it will be in two places.
• When you CUT text, it will be in one place.
• This does not work on a Mac Computer.

[kimkrass]

on 4/14/2009 What Situation Would You use cut and copy without usig paste?