Business Computing Tips

By K&K Fainges kfainges@...

One of the best tools ever invented was the Cut and Paste option on
the computer. Say you have a series of adverts written up for various
products, and you want to make up a brochure of specials for the
week.

You can just click on the list at the start of the product you want,
hold the left mouse button down until you've highlighted the whole
description, copy and then paste it into your brochure.

You can copy by:

1 Right clicking and then left clicking on the word 'copy' or
2 Hitting the copy icon on your tool bar (looks like two pieces of
paper next to the scissors) or
3 Typing Ctrl and c at the same time on your keyboard or
4 Going to EDIT => COPY in your menu bar.

Pasting has similar options:

1 Right clicking and then left clicking on the word 'paste' or
2 Hitting the paste icon on your tool bar (looks like a clipboard) or
3 Typing Ctrl and v at the same time on your keyboard or
4 Going to EDIT => PASTE in your menu bar.

Each of these options work the same way, it is just a matter of
personal choice. Try each one a few times and go with what works best
for you.

Sometimes though, pasting in information can make your formatting go
completely haywire.

There is away around this, it's called PASTE SPECIAL. If you go to
EDIT => PASTE SPECIAL, this will allow you to paste the information
into the new document without any formatting except the end of the
lines and paragraphs. That option is Normal paragraphs with line
breaks.

This option is really good when pasting from a web page as it takes
out a lot of the hidden junk underneath the words.

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Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of
Vocational and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14
years of having to make sales or starve that makes her think she has
really learnt what does and doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she
specialises in helping people get started on the long road to
technology.

"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."