why do a lot of people say cut and paste instead of copy and paste.?

Question

i notice that a lot of teachers and other people say cut and paste and to me it makes them seem so stupid. you cant cut anything and then paste it

Answer 1

They are two separate things. If you cut and paste it deletes the highlighted words from their original location and moves them to the new one when you hit paste. If you copy and paste it makes a copy and leaves the original words.

Answer 2

It goes back to when people literally cut and pasted items onto illustration board to make documents. It was known in the trade as keylining.

Full-page newspaper advertisements, newsletters, posters, and virtually all other types of printed material were created by this method.

Items, including photos, illustrations, and typeset copy, would be cut with X-acto knives or scissors, and rubber-cemented in place on the illustration board. If an item was too small or large, a photostat copy was made to the correct size. T-squares and triangles were employed to line everything up.

Special "pick-ups" were used to clean up excess rubber cement. Editing marks were made with a special blue pencil.

When finished, the entire project was then placed onto a large camera, and a film negative was created from it prior to going to press. The camera could not pick up the marks done with the blue pencil, so they were invisible on the finished piece.

It was time-consuming and cumbersome, but that was the only method, and that's where the terms originated.

Answer 3

it's a different key combination in Microsoft office: copying leaves the word in its original place but still allows you to paste it somewhere else, cut and paste "cuts" the word from the context so you can move it elsewhere by pasting.

Cut and paste is therefore not the same as copy and paste (btw if you're interested, in MS Office the key combinations are Ctrl + C for Copy and Ctrl + X for cut. Paste is Ctrl + V in both cases).

for a visual example: a note made of letters cut from a newspaper will be done by cutting and pasting (the letters in question won't be in the original newspaper anymore) while if you copy a mate's notes (using a copying machine) after being absent at school for a day, your mate will still have his notes, while you can paste them in your own notebook too if you wanted.

I hope this helped.

Answer 4

Actually, you can.

It comes from the old newspaper layouts - you'd cut a section of text and paste it into place to make the page layout complete.

In word processing, if you have a paragraph (or sentence, or word or whatever) you wanted to MOVE, you'd cut it (remove it and copy it to the clipboard) then past it in the new location.

On the other hand, if you wanted to REPRODUCE the text, you'd copy it to the clipboard without removing it, and then paste it where you want to.

So, cut and paste is correct.

Answer 5

Copy & paste leaves text to go back and try again


Cut and paste takes out the text ane.d you can paste until you copy something else

Answer 6

Because in the old days, before computers, people would type out a rough draft on a typewriter. Small edits could be made directly onto the rough draft. But larger edits required that you typed out the new paragraph on a separate piece of paper. Then you cut it out with scissors and pasted it where it needed to go. Make sense? It's a hold-over expression from old way of doing things.

Answer 7

Actually, you can cut and paste things, but they cease to exist in the original document. If you copy and paste, they are just copied to the new one and stay in the original one, too. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

Pull your foot out of your mouth, it's not hygenic.

You can do it either way, cut or copy. It depends if you want to move it or copy it whether you cut or copy before pasting.

Answer 9

back in like 1970 in the bad old days or "back in the day"
when we didn't have pcs

we would actually sometimes cut and paste, with scissors and glue

like cc, means carbon copy, they actually had some black paper that would make a copy when you typed or wrote, just from pressure

Answer 10

if you cut and paste you take it out of the original and paste it somewhere --if you copy an item from the original you dont take it out of that document-just copy and paste.