Cut

1. To remove an item from the current location to a temporary alternate location, generally called the clipboard, and then having the capability of pasting that item to another location. Only programs that allow text to be removed can be cut, other programs will only enable a user to copy. For example, you can cut text from any non-protected word processor file. However, you cannot cut text from a read-only word processor file.

How to cut text

a. Highlight the text you wish to cut, 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 Cut

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Right-click the selected text and select cut.

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Highlight the text you wish to cut press the Ctrl + X shortcut key to cut the selected text.

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 cutting text

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