Basic Cut, Copy, Paste

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello, in this lesson, we're going to learn how to Cut, Copy, Paste.
• 00:08 It is the basically the essence of using computers and software.
• 00:11 You have to know this, and
• 00:13 there are also three ways to do it just to make your day a little brighter.
• 00:17 Okay, so first of all, I will go ahead and expand my ribbons so
• 00:20 you can see all the details, and right up here we have a clipboard section.
• 00:25 On that section is a Paste button, a Cut button and a Copy button.
• 00:29 Those are grayed out because I haven't selected anything.
• 00:32 Please keep in mind the computer only works with what you tell it ahead of time,
• 00:37 meaning have you selected anything.
• 00:39 At this point,
• 00:40 I haven't selected anything, I have a flashing insertion point.
• 00:43 That's all, and so we're gonna go ahead and I'm going to click
• 00:47 on the second paragraph, and so now keep your eye up on these two buttons,
• 00:52 the little scissors and the Copy, the Cut and Copy.
• 00:55 Now, when I select the paragraph, one, two,
• 00:57 three, triple-click will select the paragraph.
• 00:59 Look what happens, they lit up, the Cut Copy lit up.
• 01:02 Now there's another way to do this.
• 01:04 If I've already selected the paragraph, now when I right-click, I have Cut,
• 01:08 Copy and a bunch of Paste options right there, and there's one other way.
• 01:14 When I float my mouse on Cut, the Tool Tip down below says Ctrl + X.
• 01:18 When I float on Copy, the Tool Tip says Ctrl + C.
• 01:21 When I float on paste, the Tool Tip says Ctrl + V.
• 01:25 The rationale for those is, if you will find those letters on your keyboard,
• 01:29 the X, the C, and the V.
• 01:31 Look at them on your keyboard, they happen to be just a pinky reach away from
• 01:35 the Control key, and that's why it's so convenient to use those.
• 01:39 It is your personal preference, I will never make you use anything I use,
• 01:43 I just want to let you know there are three ways, and
• 01:45 you will choose which way you like the best.
• 01:47 All right, so let's go ahead and get started.
• 01:49 First of all, in order to quickly see that we are making progress,
• 01:53 we are going to color the paragraph red.
• 01:55 So when I triple click the second paragraph,
• 01:57 one two three, so I have my menu bar right here with a little red A.
• 02:02 So I click on that and now my font is red.
• 02:06 Now When I click off of it, of course I lose my cut copy ability,
• 02:10 so I'll triple click again.
• 02:11 One, two, three.
• 02:12 And now I will go ahead and we're going to copy that.
• 02:15 When I copy that, it's up to you.
• 02:18 You can use the copy button, the Ctrl+C, or you can right-click Right click and
• 02:23 Copy, nothing happens on your screen but it is sitting on a little
• 02:28 imaginary clipboard off to the side and it's confusing cuz people think
• 02:33 we'll nothing happen we'll actually guess it did took a photo Photocopy of it.
• 02:36 I'm gonna scroll down here below the line and I'm going to paste.
• 02:40 Now I have my paste button right here, or I can press Ctrl+V, or
• 02:44 I can right click and I can choose and one of these options here.
• 02:47 Now when you float through your paste options,
• 02:49 now remember, that was on a right click.
• 02:52 paste options.
• 02:52 When you flow through them,
• 02:54 it's actually gonna show you what's gonna happen with the one you choose.
• 02:58 So I have paste, the red one.
• 03:01 Paste and merge the formatting which will turn my formatting black.
• 03:04 Or just paste and text which means no formatting comes at all.
• 03:07 Just plain text.
• 03:08 I'm just gonna use that first one so it stays red.
• 03:11 There we go.
• 03:12 All right, let's do the next one.
• 03:13 We're gonna color the third paragraph.
• 03:14 So, I have one, two, three paragraphs, one, two, three, triple click that one.
• 03:19 Instead of a red I am going to choose a blue font.
• 03:23 Now I'm going to cut this.
• 03:25 Triple click the paragraph, and I can use the scissors, I can use control x,
• 03:31 or I can right click cut.
• 03:32 Cut and click down below all the paragraphs, and now Pasted.
• 03:38 There we go.
• 03:39 So now, when you cut, it actually did leave the screen.
• 03:42 And we paste it, it reappears.
• 03:44 Okay. The last thing I want to do,
• 03:46 I do have instructions right down here.
• 03:48 I want to copy the very first paragraph and
• 03:50 then I don't want to change the color at all.
• 03:54 And I'm going to place it below the third paragraph.
• 03:57 So we're going to end up with two of the very first black paragraphs.
• 04:01 So, 1, 2, 3, we're going to copy that with Ctrl+C or right click or
• 04:05 the buttons up on top and I'm gonna place it below the third paragraph which means,
• 04:09 click, hit Enter and now, paste and there we go.
• 04:13 And if you have to clean up anything you can.
• 04:15 Now, in the exercise file that I use is available with this video,
• 04:20 the very bottom are all the instructions of everything I just did,
• 04:23 it would be awesome for you just to review that And get good at this.
• 04:27 Practice this a couple different times.
• 04:29 You need to be good at cut, copy, pasting in order to be good with software.
• 04:33 Thank you.

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