Office 2000 Basics

Cut, copy, and paste

In this lesson, you will learn to cut and paste, copy and paste, and drag and drop. These features allow you to move a block of text (a word, sentence, paragraph, page, document, or graphic) within a document or to another document.

Now that you are getting more familiar with the Standard toolbar, you may have wondered what these keys represented:

Cut and paste:

• The Cut procedure allows you to delete selected text from the screen and temporarily place it on the imaginary Clipboard.
• The Clipboard is a temporary storage file.
• The Paste procedure allows you to get text from the Clipboard and place it in another location in the document or even into another document.

Copy and paste:

• The Copy procedure allows you to copy selected text from the screen and temporarily place it on the imaginary Clipboard.
• The Clipboard is a temporary storage file.
• The Paste procedure allows you to get text from the Clipboard and place it in another location in the document or even into another document.