Copy

1. To duplicate text, data, files, or disks, enabling you to have two or more copies of the same file or segments of data. Copying a file to an alternate location such as a floppy disk drive is a common procedure for backing up or sharing a file.

How to copy text

a. Highlight the text you wish to copy, this could be one word, one line, a paragraph or all of the text in the document.

b. Click Edit from the top menu in the program and click Copy

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Right-click the selected text and select copy.

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Highlight the text and use the shortcut key Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert.

c. Once the above steps have been done the text will be moved into a temporary area known as the clipboard. You can then paste the text any number of times into any other document until something else is moved into the clipboard.

Practice copying text

Using the below two text fields try copying the text in the first box and pasting it into the second box.