What is a simple explanations for " cut and paste"?

Answer 1

Look at keyboard.
find Ctrl find letter x find letter c

If you press left mouse button and move pointer over text it will highlight, change color. Now press and hold Ctrl and then press x. That will cut the text from page and save to clipboard. If you do not want to remove text use letter c instead of x. You can't cut text from website, you have to use Ctrl and c on website.

Now move to any place where you can type a put the mouse pointer in the space. If you press and hold Ctrl then press v it will paste the text in the new spot.

1) Left click mouse and hold.
2) Mover pointer over text.
3) Press Ctrl and hold then press c to copy.
4) Release Ctrl and move pointer to spot where you want text.
5) Press and hold Ctrl and press v. Text will appear.

Answer 2

In case you're interested in the origin of the term "cut and paste":

It's taken from the way documents used to be created. Before computers, a sample of the complete document would be created. The text would have to be typed on paper and actually cut and pasted onto a page along with photos, drawings, other graphics. Other processes were then completed, and the pages were printed and assembled into the final document which would be mass-produced.

It was a much more complicated process than today when we can just move things around with a few clicks of the mouse to "cut and paste" to create a document.

Answer 3

You need to think of Cut and Paste on the computer just like you would OFF the computer. Imagine two pieces of paper with information that you want to combine into one. You would use scissors to cut portions of each paper and paste them onto a third (your final copy).

So, to do this on the computer you need to:
1. Choose (select) the portions you want to cut
2. Cut
3. Indicate where you want to paste those portions
4. Paste

There are several ways to accomplish this, keyboard shortcuts and mouse shortcuts - but the way I always teach these skills first is by using the menus, shortcuts you can learn later, when you are comfortable.

So - Begin - To cut and paste text:
1. To Select text that you want to cut:
Place your mouse at the beginning of the text and hold down your left mouse button. Drag over the text you want to select. (This will 'highlight' the text). Release the mouse button. If you are not used to clicking and dragging this may take practice, just keep trying!

2. Click the Edit menu, Click Cut

3. Go to the place in document that you want to paste your text. Click there. (Make sure your insertion point, the blinking line, is exactly where you want your pasted text to start).

4. Click the Edit menu, Click Paste

You are done!

Good Luck!

Jen

Answer 4

Wow--what a lot of overblown ratty answers and one that isn't even an answer. Cut and paste means that you highlight a piece of text, select "cut" on the option menu to remove it from its present position, then place your cursor where you want it to appear and select "paste". Much the same as "copy" and "paste", you see, except that you end up with only one copy in a document, and not in two.

Answer 5

When you "cut" text or pictures, you are storing it temporarily in the RAM ( Random Access Memory ) by using the CTRL - X buttons on the keyboard.

To paste, you simply press CTRL- V to retrieve what you had stored.

Its kind of like using the Memory function on a calculator. :)

You can also just COPY the text or image instead of cutting it.
To do this you just use CTRL - C... it doesn't erase what you selected and sent to the RAM, just makes a copy.

Answer 6

The cut and paste function allows you to take text that should be in another place and copy and put where you want it, while removing it from it's old location. Saves a lot of rewriting and allows you to save important sentences.

Answer 7

Removing something from one location and placing in another.

Answer 8

Duh, how I do dat? No clue, but I knew above.