How To "Copy and Paste"

[Charity]

How to copy and paste.
Copying images and backgrounds.

Copy and paste allows you to work fast between say, a text editor such as notepad or MS word, and a web document, and lets you quickly share text between both applications, without having to retype everything over and over again.

What happens is that when you copy something, your computer puts it in it's internal "clipboard" and keeps it there for you to use in another application. Here we will learn how.

First you need to "Highlight" the text you want to copy. This is done by placing your mouse cursor at the beginning of the desired text and while holding the "left" mouse button depressed, and dragging the cursor across the text.

This is what text highlighted would look like.

(TIP. To highlight whole documents, you can click on the page and use the keyboard shortcut of pressing "ctrl" + "a".)


When you have the desired text highlighted, you then copy by using the key board short cut of pressing your "Control" key and the keyboards "c" key at the same time.

To copy "ctrl + c".

Alternative. Highlight text. Choose "edit" and then choose "copy"


To Paste the item that is now on your clipboard, you need to open up the program where you want the text to be. Click where you want the text positioned. From your keyboard, press "ctrl + v"

To paste "ctrl + v".

Alternative. Choose "edit". Choose "paste".

That's it, you can now copy and paste text.


Copying images and backgrounds.

At the beginning of our webpage building experience, we do need to find free to use graphics, or images and backgrounds, to make our pages look attractive. Most images you will be allowed to take freely, but please do not take anything which is copyright. If you are in doubt, email the person who owns the site and ask for permission prior to taking.

How to copy images.

It is a good idea to have a folder ready to where you will save the image or graphic.
Then you position your mouse cursor on the graphic you would like to save and "right Click" on the graphic.


A box will pop up and you choose "Save Picture As".


more on HTML:
www.hypergurl.com/copyandpaste.html

[Charity]

Here's a neat little copy and paste tutor:
webhome.idirect.com/~bowers/cutpaste/htm/home.htm

[Charity]

EASY INSTRUCTIONS:

COPY AND PASTE USING THE MOUSE
Put the mouse at the beginning of what you want to copy and click the left mouse button, holding it down while you drag over the section.

Drag across or down. At the end of what you want copied, let go of the mouse button.


What you want to copy should be highlighted!

(If you goof, click the mouse button once to unhighlight, then start over.)
While it's highlighted, hold down the Ctrl key and hit the letter "c". This copies the highlighted part to an invisible clipboard.

Now go to where you want to paste it. Put the cursor on that spot by clicking the left mouse button once. Now hold down the Ctrl key and hit the letter "v" to paste what you copied.

If you want to move text from one place to another, highlight the text then hold down the Ctrl key and hit the letter "x". Click on the place you want to move it to, hold down the Ctrl key and hit the letter "v" to paste it in the new place.
(This cuts it from the original place, copies it to the invisible clipboard and then pastes it in the new place.)


Ctrl + c = copy
Ctrl + v = paste
Ctrl + x = move


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HIGHLIGHTING USING THE KEYBOARD
Another quick tip to make life easier is learning how to use the keyboard to highlight things.

Put the cursor at the beginning of what you want to copy by clicking there once with the left mouse button.
Now hold down the Shift key and use either the arrow keys, the Home key or the End key to highlight.

The arrow keys are self-explanatory. (Try it!)

Holding down the Shift key and then hitting the Home key will highlight from the cursor to the beginning of a line.
Holding down the Shift key and then hitting the End key will highlight from the cursor to the end of a line.



Now you know how to copy and paste!!!!!

[Charity]

Here endeth the lesson. Hope it helps. I forget that there are a lot of people who do not know how to do this. There was a time when I did not know how either. It's easy when you get the hang of it.