Copy Move Delete
Select any paragraph from one of our pages. As in the picture below.
Selection is achieved by: holding in the left mouse button, then slide the mouse across the text. the text should now look the same as in the picture. Be careful not to click anywhere else. Now to copy this highlighted text: press either control + c OR right click on the highlighted text (it should remain highlighted) and the menu comes up as in the picture - select copy by clicking on it.
Now open a word application as below
Here notepad is open -click in the white space and either: click on control + v OR right click in the white space and select paste as above. The paragraph will now be in the notepad document - a flash movie of this is below
Copy Move and Paste Files
Select a file individually or as part of an adjacent or non-adjacent group. To select an individual file within the Windows Explorer - Open Windows Explorer by right clicking on the green start button XP(bottom left of the screen) and if necessary select the folder that contains the file you are interested in. Click on the file that you wish to select. When selected the wordswill be highlighted, as illustrated below
To select a continuous block of files - Open the Windows Explorer program and select the folder that you are interested in. Click on the first file of the block you wish to select, then while depressing the Shift key, click on the last file of the required block. When you release the Shift key the entire block will remain selected.
To select multiple files that are not in a continuous block · Open the Windows Explorer program and select the folder that you are interested in. Click on the first file that you wish to select and while keeping the Ctrl key depressed, click on the other files that you wish to select. When you release the Ctrl key, the selected files will continue to be highlighted.
1 Copy and Paste files within directories/folders to make a duplicate copy.
To copy files the hard way using the Windows Explorer · Open the Windows Explorer by clicking on the Start button, move the mouse pointer to Programs, and click on Windows Explorer.· Select the file or directory to be copied.· From the Edit drop down menu, click on Copy OR click using the right-hand mouse to display the popup menu, and click on the Copy command.· Select the required destination within the Windows Explorer tree.· From the Edit drop down menu, click on PasteOR click using the right-hand mouse to display the popup menu, and click on the Paste command.
To copy files (the easy way) using the Windows Explorer · Simply highlight the file you wish to copy, and with the CTRL key depressed, drag the file from one location to another.
2 Make backup copies of data onto a memory stick.
To copy files to a memory stick· Open the Windows Explorer and select the file(s) you wish to copy to memory stick.· Click once using the right-hand mouse, to display the popup menu as illustrated. · Click on the Send To command, and then select memory stick from the sub-menu displayed. Store your backups in a different location from your computer!
1 Use Cut and Paste functions to move files within directories/folders.
To use “Cut and Paste” to move files from one folder to another In the example shown we have two folders, called Folder One and Folder Two. Folder one contains three files called:file one.doc, file two.doc and file three.doc. In this example we wish to move the files contained within the folder called folder one to folder two.First we need to select the files that we wish to move. Depress the Ctrl key, and while keeping it depressed click on the three files. When the Ctrl key is released the three files remain selected.
Now right click and from the popup menu displayed select the Cut command.
Next click on the folder that you wish to move the files to, i.e. Folder
two. Right click on this folder and from the popup menu displayed, select
the Paste command.
The selected files will appear in the new folder. We have cut and pasted
(i.e. moved) them from one folder to another.
To use "drag and drop" to move files from one folder to another
- Moving the easy way! In the example shown we have two folders, called
Folder One and Folder Two. Folder one contains three files called:file
one.doc, file two.doc and file three.doc. In this example we wish to
move the files continued within the folder called folder one to folder
two.First we need to select the files that we wish to move. Depress
the Shift key, and while keeping it depressed click on the three files.
When the Shift key is released the three files remain selected. Use
the mouse to drag the selected files to the folder called folder two.
You will notice that a representation of the files is displayed when
you move the mouse pointer on screen, as illustrated. NOTE: Had you
wanted to copy the files rather than move them you would have depressed
the Control key while dragging and dropping.