cut and paste

[adsathome]

I have found out how to cut / copy and paste,but I don't know where you are meant to put the information when you have done that.
Sometimes it says that you are meant to cut / copy and paste to your browser....but where do you put it.
If anybody can help,I would be deeply grateful.
Regards......Mike

[Rollo]

It really depends on what you are copying and why you are doing it. Copy/paste is there to save you having to retype something that you already have.

For example, If it is the address of a website that you want to go to then you would paste it into the address bar of your browser.

If I wanted to copy/paste your question then I could put it here in this reply, like this:

I have found out how to cut / copy and paste,but I don't know where you are meant to put the information when you have done that.
Sometimes it says that you are meant to cut / copy and paste to your browser....but where do you put it.
If anybody can help,I would be deeply grateful.
Regards......Mike

[trish432]

If it`s something you want to save eg, I sometimes save an answer from ab for future reference, I normally save in wordpad or notepad.

[ACtheTROLL]

all correct ... but very specific

basically cut and paste allows you to copy ANYTHING from one location to another.

this can be part or all of a link
freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~adelr/copy_paste.htm

it can be text from one document or web page to another
such as your address - or a part of an e-mail
(why spend another 20 minutes typing out something again that took you 20 minutes typing yasterday?)

dear sir .... as it clearly states on your website .... (copy/paste the passage you are quoting)

it can be pictures, tables, sounds anything you can see on screen can be copied from one location or document to another.

kids lift huge passages from wikipedia into word and call it homework

you can copy and paste a picture of yourself into a CV

you could (god forbid) attach a sound file into an e-mail


it's not strictly true .... certain things won't transfer
but if you want to keep it (whatever "it" is)
you stand a fair chance of being able to select it copy it and paste it somewhere safe

[sincnoel]

frankly, i am baffled by copy/paste in the first place. haven't a clue what to do. like so many other things on a pc that others take for granted.