When I cut n paste, what happens inbetween the cutting and pasting?

Question

Do I have to create a document before or after, when I cut n paste?

Answer 1

When you cut the data is put into your computer's RAM.

When you paste the data is taken from your computer's RAM and placed in the document where you are doing the paste.

There are minor differences in this depending on the applications.

For a Word Document you can do the following:

Open a document
Cut part of the text (a character, a word, a paragraph, whatever)

Close the document

Create a brand new document

Paste

Voila (the character, the word, the paragraph, or whatever you cut) now appears in the new document.

Give it a try.

P.S. Things work differently in Excel. (Experiment)

Answer 2

It depends on the software you're using, but normally you will paste into an existing document (or a newly-created one).

Edit: It doesn't matter if you create the new document before or after.

Answer 3

What happens in between? The data is held in a temporary "clipboard".

You need a document before you paste so you have a place to paste into.

Answer 4

when you do cut the information gets temporally saved to the clipboard until you need it then it can be pasted whenever

Answer 5

Please don't ask questions like that.....

That would be like asking what the white stuff between oreos is.

Just know it works and you're happy. Enjoy.