How to Copy, Cut and Paste in Word (Lesson 1.7)

In this video you will learn how to copy and cut specific areas of a text and how to paste copied text. 

Copy

Let’s say that we want to copy the first sentence of our text. To do that we have to highlight the sentence, then we need to go to the “Clipboard” section in the “Home” tab and there we need to click on the button called “Copy”. Alternatively, we can also press “CTRL + C”. 

Paste

To now paste the text at the end of our document, we simply need to click at the position where we want to paste the text and click on the button “Paste”. The keyboard shortcut for pasting is “CTRL + V”. After pasting the text, you will notice that there is a little box for the pasting options. These options can also be found, when we click on the dropdown arrow underneath the “Paste” button. And with these options we can basically choose if we want to keep the original formatting of the copied text or if we want the copied text be formatted the same way as the text that is surrounding it. For now, you don’t need the other options but feel free to test them. Another function I want to show you is the cut function. 

Cut

With the cut function we can remove stuff but at the same time we can copy it. So, let’s highlight the next sentence. Then we click on cut or press “CTRL + X” and of course we can also paste this text again when clicking on the paste button.