Learning how to "copy and paste" is the most important basic skill to learn about your computer.  It is very easy to do and once you learn how to copy and paste, it will save you hours time re-typing - Just think, you will never have to type something more than once.

The instructions below are for Microsoft Windows computers and will not be valid for Apple computers.

1. Place your mouse cursor at the end of the text on the box on the next line
 

2. Hold down your LEFT mouse button while you drag the cursor over the text. You will notice that the text is now selected.

3. While the text is selected - Release the left mouse button - the text will remain selected.

4. Make sure the mouse pointer is on the selected text and click the RIGHT mouse button - a menu should display

5. With your LEFT mouse button click the "Copy" menu item.

6. RIGHT click your mouse cursor in the empty box below - the menu should display

7. With your LEFT mouse button, click the "Paste" menu item. Your text will be pasted in to the box.

8. You can paste text more than once, try pasting the text into the box 3 or 4 times.

Cut and Paste is the same as above, except in #5 of the instructions choose "cut" from the menu, instead of "copy" - when you cut the text, it will be removed from the original location... use "cut and paste" when you want to move text from one location to another - use "copy and paste" if you want to copy the text.

Tip: You can copy from one window on your screen to a completely separate window... for example, cut from a Word document and paste into a web form.

Shortcuts

To Copy: Select an area, as shown above, then hold the "Ctrl" key and press the "C" key at the same time.
To Paste: Click your mouse where you want the text pasted, and then hold the "Ctrl" key while you press the "V" key at the same time OR hold the "Shift" key and press the "Insert" key.

Using Copy and Paste can save you many hours of typing - All the best!!!