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I noticed a few people dont know how to cut and past, well if like me your a slow typer, this can be usefull, if you have a large bit to put on here................First open note pad.............write your text...............then follow the instructions below.........then click add message...........stick a title in.........put summat in the box.....click add message............then open up the thread and click add reply..........then past in your message........time saver lol

Cut & Paste: Have you ever had to copy a really big letter or paragraph by typing from one file to another? Or from a web page to an email? If so, you know it can be a very tedious job. Let your mouse relieve your keyboard fingers for a minute. You can do what is called 'Cut & Paste' or Copy & Paste'. To C&P, you simply locate the text or image or file that you wish to relocate or copy. For our example we are going to work with the text here on this page. You will need to open a word processor program or even the Microsoft Notepad installed on all Windows machines by default. You can open Notepad by going to START / PROGRAMS / ACCESSORIES / NOTEPAD. Once the Notepad window is open, come back to this window and you can toggle between these two windows by clicking on whichever window you need on the taskbar. OK, place the mouse cursor at the beginning of the text you wish to copy anywhere on this page. Click and hold the left mouse button. Now, with the mouse button still being held, drag your mouse across the text. You will see the text being highlighted as you pass over it. When you get to the end of the text you want to copy, release the mouse button. Be sure not to click again because it will unselect the text you just selected. Instead, place the cursor anywhere INSIDE of the blue, highlighted text and right-click the mouse. You will then be given a menu. You can now choose either 'Copy' or 'Cut'. The difference between the two is that when you Cut & Paste, the text will not be left in the original document from which you took the text. You literally cut it out, as opposed to just copying it. Once you have Cut or Copied the text, you need to put it somewhere now. Go to and click the Add Reply and place the cursor where you want to place the text that you copied, top left by default and right-click the mouse. When the menu appears, you will choose PASTE. Whallah! You have done your first of countless C&Ps. Now, if you go to another location on the document and right-click and choose PASTE again, you will notice that you can paste it over and over again. This is very handy if you have to retype something many many times.

Practise on here if you want copy the first paragraph and past it in a reply lol Sxx

Cut & Paste: Have you ever had to copy a really big letter or paragraph by typing from one file to another? Or from a web page to an email? If so, you know it can be a very tedious job. Let your mouse relieve your keyboard fingers for a minute. You can do what is called 'Cut & Paste' or Copy & Paste'. (Just like that) How do you think I do my quizzes :-)) Dee x

...how do you open note pad....where is it...

Sally I type my quizzes in a Microsoft Word document then cut and paste them on to here, I have never found note pad :-(( Dee x

Sally You can open Notepad by going to START / PROGRAMS / ACCESSORIES / NOTEPAD. Dee i know you can hun pmsl, just a few cant lol Sxx

Oh !! I was expecting to find wallpapering tips :O((( ;O)P xXx

For idiots like me Steve,you should point out that you hold down the LEFT button while running your mouse over the script to be copied.I was trying for ages with the right button pressed,and was then told by my son that it was the left one to copy and the right one to get the paste sign up. Thanks for rectifying that Steve,only there may have been someone out there as thick as me. Mwaah !!

hi , thanx for the tips on copy/cut and paste , i have been trying to sort that out for ages , with no results , (i'm a bit slow) lol but i just followed your instructions and did it first time. i just want to say a big thank you for taking the time to teach an old dog new tricks ,lol regards sue

Sorry SL i typed it in a hurry fixed now Anita I didny do wallpaper pmsl Sue your welcome

OH showed me, I have it copied down ......but always type what I want to type......I am not thick, just don't know my way around computers......can type OK anyway.....

talking about wallpaper, which I know we are not, but it took me ages to realise that the background on my screen is called wallpaper, or is someone having me on?? ;-))

Nope Dee its called 'wallpaper' hun Sxx

ty Steve xx

Ps if you want new wallpaper just google the term and there are millions of free images you can use Sxx

cheers Carol all info helps people hun Sxx

I couldnt get the hang of copy and paste for years, despite people telling me how to do it. In the end I googled it and found a brilliant site, which tells you how to do it in five easy steps - essential for numpties like me. What I had not realised till then was that right-clicking 'captures' the information into your mouse, where it remains till you release it. Any left clicking you do in the meantime doesnt affect the info.held in the mouse. I could never work out where the information went while you were trying to transfer it and assumed I had lost it, pmsl. OC

Lap top wont cut an paste get real angry

Thank you for this Steve. (I do have a quicker way....my 11 year old!)