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Rearranging text with Cut, Copy, and Paste

Rearranging text with Cut, Copy, and Paste - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Rearranging text with Cut, Copy, and Paste

Sometimes, when working with text in a document, it starts out in the right place, but maybe needs to be moved, or perhaps you need a copy of that text somewhere else in the document, or even in another document, or program, for that matter. We're going to talk about copying and pasting now, and we're going to look at several different techniques for doing so. We'll continue to work with our Style Guide2 file here, and at the very beginning, we have three lines of text. Let's say the date here needs to be moved a little further down the page. Well, the first step is just to select it. So, using one of the techniques from the previous movie, let's move into the margin next to our date, and click once. That selects the entire line. Now there are some options for how we're going to cut this. We don't want to copy it; we actually want to remove it. So, to cut it, we can go to the Home tab on the ribbon. Right here in this clipboard section, you'll see the scissors icon for cutting. The…

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