How To Copy And Paste Text

The Copy And Paste has the honor or being my first blog entry, simply because it's the first tip that comes to mind :) it's probably the most widely used "tip" out there and it's a very useful one, specially for beginners. It can be a big time saver! So here are various way to "cut and paste" text or other elements.

Method 1) Slow
a) Highlight the text you want to copy with your mouse (bring your cursor at the beginning of the text you want to highlight, then while keeping your left mouse button down, drag your cursor at the end of the text.
b) Release the mouse button.
c) Move your cursor on top of the highlighted text and press down your RIGHT mouse button (this is called a "right-click"). A menu will appear with various options.
d) One of the option in the menu will be "copy", select that option.
e) Now, the highlighted text is sitting in your computer's memory, you are ready to "paste" the text... go where you want to paste it, whether it's in a text editor, blog post entry or wherever else you want to paste this text.
f) To paste the text, "right-click" and from the menu, select "Paste" and Voila! you paste that text without having to manually type it in!

Method 2) Slower
The same as above, however in most browsers and other application, you will find a "edit" option in the menu; once you have your text highlighted, you can go to that edit menu and select the "copy" option, then when you are ready to paste your text, go to the edit menu again and this time select the "paste" option.

Method 3) Faster
It's the same as above, however instead of using the right-click menu, you simply highlight the text and then on your keyboard, press down the key "ctrl" and while still holding down the "ctrl" key, simultaneously press down the "c" key. This places the text in memory ready to be pasted in your desired location. To paste the text, hold down the "ctrl" key and simultaneously press the "v" key.

That's it!
Copying + pasting is much more than a time saver, it's a more error-proof and accurate way to duplicate text, sometimes you need to put some text somewhere and making a human error is not an option, using the copy and paste method, there can be no human error or "typos".

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