Cut and Paste Techniques

In our letter, we've got the two names mixed up! It was Ambulancewoman Henderson writing to Constable Tucker. So it should start "Dear Constable Tucker", and not "Dear Ambulancewoman Henderson". We'll use Cut and Paste techniques to correct the error.

Again, we'll go through three techniques to Cut and Paste.

Technique 1 - Cutting and Pasting with the Menu bar

Highlight the text you want to cut and paste:

Highlighted text to cut

From the Home tab, locate the Clipboard panel
Click the Cut item
Move your cursor to the place where you want to paste your text

Positioned cursor

On the Clipboard panel, select the Paste item. You'll see this menu in Word 2007:

The Paste item on the Clipboard panel in Word 2007

In Word 2010, however, you'll see this rather confusing new menu:

The Paste item on the Clipboard panel in Word 2010

Click the first of the three items, just above Paste Special, to do a simple paste:

Your text is pasted to the new position:

Pasted text

Technique 2 - Right Click

For this technique, we'll Cut and Paste Constable Tucker to the top. So do the following:

Highlight the text you want to Cut and Paste
Click on the highlighted text with the right mouse button
From the popup menu, click "Cut" (Click with the left mouse button)

Cutting via the right-click menu

Your highlighted text is cut
Move your cursor to the place where you want to paste the text
Click the new place with your right mouse button. You'll see the same menu as above
From the popup menu, click Paste (Click with your left mouse button)
The text is pasted to the new position:

Text pasted

Technique 3 - Keyboard

Highlight the text you want to Cut and Paste
Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard
Press the letter "X" on your keyboard
The text is cut
Move the cursor to the place where you want to paste your text
Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard
Press the letter "V" on your keyboard
The text is pasted to the new position

You'll now learn how to copy and paste text.

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