Windows 10 took a tip from the kindergartners and made cut and paste an integral part of computing life. You can electronically cut or copy just about anything and then paste it just about anyplace else with little fuss and even less mess.
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The beauty of the Windows 10 desktop is that, with all those windows onscreen at the same time, you can easily grab bits and pieces from any of them and paste all the parts into a brand-new window.
The quick ‘n’ dirty guide to cut ‘n’ paste
Here’s a quick guide to the three basic steps used for cutting, copying, and pasting:
Select the item to cut or copy: a few words, a file, a web address, or any other item. Right-click your selection and choose Cut or Copy from the menu, depending on your needs. Use Cut when you want to move something. Use Copy when you want to duplicate something, leaving the original intact.
Hard Drive Copying Windows 10Selecting things to cut or copy
Before you can shuttle pieces of information to new places, you have to tell Windows exactly what you want to grab. The easiest way to tell it is to select the information with a mouse. In most cases, selecting involves one swift trick with the mouse, which then highlights whatever you’ve selected.
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After you select some information, you’re ready to start playing with it. You can cut it or copy it. (Or just press Delete to delete it.)
After selecting something, right-click it. (On a touchscreen, touch it and hold down your finger to fetch the pop-up menu.) When the menu appears, choose Cut or Copy, depending on your needs, as shown in this figure. Then right-click your destination and choose Paste.
Windows 10 Copying Screen
To copy information into another window, right-click your selection and choose Copy.
The Cut and Copy options differ drastically. How do you know which one to choose?
To save a picture of your entire screen, press the Windows key+PrtScr. Windows quickly saves the image in a file called Screenshot inside your Pictures folder. Do it again, and the screenshot is named Screenshot (2).
Pasting information to another place
After you cut or copy information to the Windows Clipboard, it’s checked in and ready for travel. You can paste that information nearly anyplace else.
Pasting is relatively straightforward:
Or, if you want to paste a file onto the desktop, right-click on the desktop and choose Paste. The cut or copied file appears where you’ve right-clicked.
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