Exercise (Cut, Copy, and Paste)

• Type the following paragraphs into a new Word document.

     Now, as the computer student, you must choose which option you wish to employ – Cut (which will erase the highlighted section and store it in memory), or Copy (which makes a copy of the highlighted section and stores it memory).

     The power of a word processor lies in its ability to allow the computer user to make significant changes to the order of a document's contents without having to retype the information each time a change in order is made. This is accomplished through the word processor's Cut, Copy, and Paste functions.

     First, you must highlight a block of text:

1) Place the cursor at the beginning of the desired block of text you wish to highlight.

2) Click the cursor once to establish the starting point for the block.

3) Then, press and hold the mouse button, dragging the cursor across the text you wish to highlight. This may be one line, or many, one word or many.

     Once the section is highlighted, release the mouse button and select the Edit menu.

     The second step is to decide, if you want to Cut, do you wish to move the data elsewhere in the document. If so, place the cursor at the new point, select Edit, and then Paste. The result will be that the cut material will appear at this new location. Note that you can repeat this function as many times as you wish, creating several copies of the cut text. If you decide to Copy rather than Cut, you still place the cursor where you wish the copy to appear, then select Edit and Paste to create one or more copies of the desired material. Each time you select Paste, you will create a copy.

      Cut, Copy, and Paste submenu items can be found under the Edit menu. While they are usually greyed out, the moment the user highlights text, they become visible (black) and so usable.

• Save this document onto your disk as "Editfile".
• Select the first paragraph, beginning with "now…" and ending with "memory…". Highlight and cut it. Paste this paragraph just before the paragraph beginning "The second step…".
• Now, highlight and cut the paragraph that begins "Cut, Copy, and Paste submenu…"; paste this paragraph just before the paragraph ending with "…and paste functions".
• Since a well-written report always repeats the main idea that began the report, copy the paragraph beginning with "The power of …", and paste it at the end of your document as a new, concluding paragraph.
• Type and centre 5 asterisks (*) under the title. Copy these asterisks and have them appear again at the bottom of the document.
• Your completed document should look like this:

  Cut, Copy, and Paste
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       Cut, Copy, and Paste submenu items can be found under the Edit menu. While they are usually greyed out, the moment the user highlights text, they become visible (black) and so usable.

        First, you must highlight a block of text:

  1) Place the cursor at the beginning of the desired block of text you wish to highlight.

  2) Click the cursor once to establish the starting point for the block.

  3) Then, press and hold the mouse button, dragging the cursor across the text you wish to highlight. This may be one line, or many, one word or many.

       Once the section is highlighted, release the mouse button and select the Edit menu.

       Now, as the computer student, you must choose which option you wish to employ – Cut (which will erase the highlighted section and store it in memory), or Copy (which makes a copy of the highlighted section and stores it memory).

       The second step is to decide, if you want to Cut, do you wish to move the data elsewhere in the document. If so, place the cursor at the new point, select Edit, and then Paste. The result will be that the cut material will appear at this new location. Note that you can repeat this function as many times as you wish, creating several copies of the cut text. If you decide to Copy rather than Cut, you still place the cursor where you wish the copy to appear, then select Edit and Paste to create one or more copies of the desired material. Each time you select Paste, you will create a copy.

        The power of a word processor lies in its ability to allow the computer user to make significant changes to the order of a document's contents without having to retype the information each time a change in order is made. This is accomplished through the word processor's Cut, Copy, and Paste functions.

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