Moving text around documents

You will often find that you want to move sections of text around your document or from one document to another. You may decide that you want to move a paragraph from the middle to the end, for example.

When you move text, it disappears from your document and is stored in a special document called the clipboard. It is kept there until you try to store a different piece of text there; only one selection can be dealt with at once. When you copy a piece of text the original version stays in the document, as well as being stored in the clipboard.

To move a section of text from one place to another, follow the following procedure:

  1. Select the area of text you want to move.
  2. Click on the Cut button on the toolbar. This will cut the text from the document and close up the space where it was cut from.
  3. Move the pointer to the place where you want your text to go and click once, so that the caret is placed there.
  4. Click on the Paste button on the toolbar.
  5. Your text will appear in the new position.

You may paste as many copies of your text into documents as you wish.

Instead of clicking on the toolbar buttons to cut and paste, you may use the following menu commands and short cut key combinations:

  1. Select the area of text to move.
  2. Display the Edit menu and choose Cut. Or enter Ctrl-X from the keyboard.
  3. Place the insertion point where you want the text to go.
  4. Display the Edit menu and choose Paste. Or enter Ctrl-V from the keyboard.
  5. Your text will appear in the new position.

Note that the Paste button will become highlighted and remain highlighted once you have done a cut or copy operation within the document. The text you cut or copied will stay on the clipboard until next time you do a cut or copy.

You can paste as many copies of the contents of the clipboard into the document as you like.