Copying and Pasting in Simpletext



Topic 4 : Copying and Pasting in SimpleText assumes you have a document or know how to create a document.

The commands Copy and Paste are located under the Edit menu.

Copy allows the user to copy selected text or blocks of text within their document to another location without retyping.

The Copy Command places a copy of the chosen selection to be copied on the Clipboard, a temporary storage area that can hold the selection as it is being moved or until you need it somewhere else in you document. The Clipboard holds only one selection at a time, and copying another selection would replace the current contents of the Clipboard with the latest selection. Also, since the contents of the Clipboard are not stored permanently on the disk, turning off the Macintosh will erase the contents of the Clipboard.

The Paste command transfers the selection from the Clipboard to its new location in the document.

Before you start Copying and Pasting click on the window from which you will be copying, to make it the active window. For this exercise let's copy from the "my name" document.

Here is how to Copy and Paste selected text :

Select a word in your document "my name" that you want to copy. To select a word, use the mouse to drag (hold the mouse button, move the mouse button, then release the mouse button) the insertion bar over your selected word. The word should be highlighted.

Observe that Simpson is the selected text.


Choose Copy from the Edit Menu.

Observe that Copy is highlighted


Place your insertion point in a new location by moving your mouse to before the place you want to insert and then clicking. This will be where your text will be pasted.

Choose Paste from the Edit Menu.

Observe that Paste is highlighted


The following diagram illustrates where the text Simpson is pasted:



You have successfully copied and pasted a piece of text. Practice some more. Try copying and pasting more than one word at a time.

Click on one of the following, to continue the tutorial:

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