Copying and Pasting with the Clipboard
All computers have a short term memory bank called the "clipboard." Unless
you install special software, the clipboard will remember one thing at a time
that you copy. This can be a bunch of text, an image file, or a sound file.
Multitasking: Using more than one software application at a time.
When we copy and paste text or multimedia elements, usually we need to multitask.
This means that more than one application is open at the same time.
Copy and Paste
Instructions (Mac/Windows)
- Open a web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer, also called "IE") and
a word processor (ClarisWorks or Word) or Multimedia Presentation Program
(like PowerPoint.)
- At the bottom of the screen (on the taskbar
or dock 
)
click on a different program to switch into it.
TO COPY AND PASTE TEXT:
- Go to the webpage in Netscape/IE which contains the info you want.
- Highlight the text you want to copy by clicking and dragging.
- From the EDIT menu, choose COPY. (or right click and choose copy)
- Switch into your Word Processor (make it "active")
- Click where you want to put the text
- From the EDIT menu, choose PASTE.
TO COPY AND PASTE PICTURES/GRAPHICS: (On a Windows computer, this only works
with IE)
- Go to the webpage in Internet Explorer which contains the picture/graphic
you want.
- Move your mouse over the graphic you want to copy
- Copy the picture by:
- MAC:
Click the mouse button and hold it down till you see a popup menu, then
choose to "COPY IMAGE"
- WIN:
Click with the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON on the picture, and from the popup menu
choose to "COPY."
- Switch into your word processor (make it "active")
- Click where you want to put the text
- From the EDIT menu, choose PASTE.
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