Basic Cut, Copy, Paste

Quick reference

• 00:05 Hello.
• 00:05 In this lesson we're going to review cut, copy, paste.
• 00:08 Every efficient computer user knows cut, copy,
• 00:10 paste really well, and it just takes a lot of practice.
• 00:14 So if you will open the exercise file you'll see that there are three paragraphs
• 00:18 already set up for you.
• 00:19 And what we're gonna do is we're gonna copy, cut, and
• 00:22 paste using a variety of ways to do that.
• 00:26 So if you'll see, we have three paragraphs on our screen.
• 00:31 Right up here on the top left of the home ribbon are your Cut, Copy, Paste buttons.
• 00:35 Cut, Copy are grey right now because I haven't highlighted anything.
• 00:38 Remember, the computer only does what you tell it to.
• 00:40 If you haven't highlighted anything to work with,
• 00:42 it doesn't know you want to Cut or Copy.
• 00:44 So the first thing we're gonna do, is we're gonna come in and
• 00:47 select the second paragraph.
• 00:49 Now from previous videos you learn that a triple-click in a paragraph, one,
• 00:53 two, three, will select the paragraph.
• 00:55 You could do a click and drag, but the triple-click is rather fast.
• 00:59 Now what we're gonna do, we're gonna color that red, and the reason we're gonna color
• 01:02 that red is just to identify it as the one we're working with.
• 01:06 It get's a little confusing when you're working with just black text.
• 01:08 So go ahead and click the little letter a with the red color on it, the Font color.
• 01:14 Now that it's red, we have an option.
• 01:16 We can use our Home ribbon, where cut copy are now lit up and available to us.
• 01:21 Notice, when you float your mouse on Cut,
• 01:23 the tool tip that comes down below says Ctrl+x.
• 01:25 It's teaching you that if you prefer to use your keyboard,
• 01:28 you would press Ctrl+x for that same command.
• 01:31 On copy, the tool tip down below says Ctrl+C and
• 01:35 on paste, the tool tip says Ctrl+V.
• 01:38 And they're simply in the same area.
• 01:41 If you look at your keyboard and find the x, c, and
• 01:43 v they're simply a pinky reach away from the control key.
• 01:46 So that's why it's copy paste on the x, c, and v.
• 01:51 All right.
• 01:51 And the other option is when you right click on a paragraph,
• 01:54 you can read the list all the way at the top, there you go, Cut, Copy.
• 01:58 But right click gives you a variety of paste options and
• 02:01 we'll review those in a little bit.
• 02:03 Right now I've highlighted this paragraph, I've colored it red.
• 02:06 I'm going to go ahead and use the Copy button up on the Home ribbon.
• 02:10 When I click Copy, absolutely nothing happens on your screen.
• 02:13 And this will kind of throw you off because shouldn't something happen?
• 02:18 Well, it did.
• 02:19 It did copy, and
• 02:21 it's hanging out on a little imaginary device called a Clipboard.
• 02:25 You can't see the Clipboard, it doesn't appear on your screen,
• 02:28 you just have to trust that it worked.
• 02:29 If you're not sure it worked, feel free to hit Copy again.
• 02:32 Just to make sure.
• 02:34 Now we're going to put our insertion point below the bottom paragraph.
• 02:38 And now we're going to paste.
• 02:39 And I'm just going to go ahead and move my mouse right up here and
• 02:42 click the Paste button and there it appeared.
• 02:44 The red came with it, so it copies the text and all the formatting and
• 02:48 then it will paste the text and all the formatting.
• 02:51 All right, next one we're going to color the third paragraph blue.
• 02:55 So, let's go ahead and select the paragraph, one, two,
• 02:58 three clicks inside the paragraph will select the whole thing.
• 03:00 we have our Font Color right up here, you can hit the drop down arrow on
• 03:04 the Font Color, and choose any version of the blue in there that you'd like.
• 03:09 It is still highlighted, so now I'm gonna go ahead and Cut.
• 03:12 This time I'm gonna Right click and Cut, so I'm gonna Right click and
• 03:15 I'm gonna read the list and way at the top says Cut.
• 03:18 So I'm gonna go ahead and activate that and this time it vanished off your screen.
• 03:23 It did cut it, it is sitting on that imaginary clipboard, it's waiting for
• 03:27 us to paste it somewhere.
• 03:28 So I'm gonna place my insertion point at the bottom, I'm going to right click, and
• 03:33 look at my paste.
• 03:34 It's not just a flat Ctro+V or just paste, you've got options to choose from.
• 03:40 It's good to know that you have options to choose from cuz sometimes we want
• 03:43 those other ones.
• 03:44 First one says keep source formatting, which is the one I wanna choose but
• 03:48 I wanna show you the next one.
• 03:50 Merge formatting.
• 03:50 It will blend the formatting into,
• 03:52 it will kind of make a nice combination of an older document with a newer document.
• 03:57 The last one is text only.
• 03:58 Sometimes I want to paste text but I want to leave off all the formatting
• 04:02 that traveled with it from a previous document.
• 04:04 And it's very handy and I do like that feature.
• 04:06 Right now, I'm gonna use this first font and I'll float my mouse on
• 04:09 the first little clipboard that says keep source formatting.
• 04:12 Go ahead and click, and there you have it.
• 04:14 Okay, the last time, our last paragraph, which is the top one,
• 04:19 we're gonna copy this and paste it using our keyboard.
• 04:23 Now, remember when you float your mouse on these buttons up here,
• 04:26 it tells you what the keyboard options are.
• 04:29 So, for copy, it's Ctrl+C.
• 04:30 And when I just float on Paste, it says Ctrl+V.
• 04:33 So I'm gonna use those commands.
• 04:35 First, I'm gonna select the first paragraph.
• 04:37 Three clicks, I'm gonna copy it with my keyboard, Ctrl+C.
• 04:40 I'm gonna click down at the very bottom, and
• 04:45 I'm gonna paste it with my keyboard, Vtrl+V.
• 04:48 And there it is, and that is how you cut, copy, paste.
• 04:51 Please feel free to practice that a little longer if you'd like, and
• 04:54 I'll see you in the next video.

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