Office 2010 - Word Beginners - Moving and Copying Text

Learning Objectives

• Use Cut and Copy
• Move Text with Toolbar
• Copy with Shortcut Menu
• Use Paste Special 
• Paste Multiple Items
• View multiple documents 
• Drag and Drop Text

Course Overview

• This course looks at ways to move and copy text including using Toolbars, Shortcut menu and Drag and Drop methods.
• Cut, Copy and Paste can be found in the Home tab, as well as Shortcut menus and Shortcut keys can also be used.
• When using the Cut or Copy commands, the data is put in a temporary storage area called the clipboard. Windows Clipboard is able to store a number of items so you can choose which to paste with the Pasting Multiple Items button using the Clipboard in the Home tab.
• Right-clicking on an object to display its Shortcut menu is an alternative way of working in Word.
• Paste Special can be selected by clicking the Paste button in the home tab and enables the original formatting to be retained.
• You move data within a document or between documents by using the Drag and Drop method. To display more than one document select View Side by Side from the View tab.