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Highlighting and Cut/Copy/Paste

About the most valuable lessons you can ever learn about your computer is highlighting and copy/cut/paste. If there's nothing else that you take with you, that's the most important thing I could ever teach you. It'll literally save days of your life from repetitive work, and retyping existing information.

Highlighing

Cut, Copy, and Paste


Highlighing

Where can I use this?: Windows 95(98/NT) Explorer, a windows File/Open dialog, a windows File/Save (As...) dialog, Listboxes like above, and more. Try it out for yourself.

Here's two general highlighting techniques: Object, and Text

Object Highlighting (Files, items in a list-box, and other non-text Objects)

Highlight a Group of Items in a row
  • Using the list below, click on "Item 2" in the list.
  • Hold down the <Shift> key
  • Click on the "Item 4".
  • Release the <Shift> key

Alternate:

  • With your Mouse, you can click-and-drag on "Item 2" to "Item 4" and then release.
Highlight two, or more things not in a row
  • Using the list below, click on the second item in the list.
  • Hold down the <Ctrl> key
  • Click on the fourth item.
  • Release the <Ctrl> key
Highlight a group, then highlight one more thing
  • Using the list below, click on "Item 2" in the list.
  • Hold down the <Shift> key
  • Click on "Item 4".
  • Release <Shift> key
  • Hold down the <Ctrl> key
  • Click on "Item 6"
  • Release the <Ctrl> key

Note: This is just using the first two methods together

 

Text Highlighting

 

Try some of the combinations of keys listed to the right to see how it works

Mouse

Actions (All actions with Left Mouse button):
Single-click = Set Cursor Position
Single-click-and-drag = Highlight from beginning position to place where button is released.
Double-click = Highlight word
Double-click-and-drag = Highlight word, and all other words between beginning point, and where button is released.
Triple-click (usually works in word processors and sometimes other locations) = Select Paragraph

Main Key

<Shift> Key Definition: While held down, anything the Cursor passes over will be highlighted.
Used with: Anything

Alternate Keys (Can be used for non-highlighting purposes. Use any combination below with <Shift> to highlight all text between current cursor position and destination of cursor)

<Ctrl> Key Definition: Jumps to the beginning of previous/next word when used in combination with Left/Right Arrow keys.
Combinations (<Ctrl>+):
<Home>=Move to top of document.
<End>=Move to top of document.
Additional Notes: Microsoft Word, and Corel WordPerfect have:
<Ctrl>+<Down Arrow>=Cursor moves to beginning of previous paragraph.
<Ctrl>+<Up Arrow>=Cursor moves to beginning of next paragraph.
<Home> Key Definition: Jumps to the beginning of the line of text.
Combinations: (<Home>+)
<Ctrl>
=Moves to the beginning of the text document.
<End> Key Definition: Jumps to the end of the line of text.
Combinations: (<End>+)
<Ctrl>
=Moves to the end of the text document.
<Page Up> Key Definition: Moves cursor up one page of (visible) text.
<Page Down> Key Definition: Moves cursor down one page of (visible) text.

 


Cut, Copy, and Paste

Where can I use this?: Anywhere in windows (and even dos edit boxes) Works on text, files, pictures, URL's, icon's, groups of anything in Word Processors (MS Word, Corel WordPerfect), and MANY other places. Can you highlight it with your mouse? Then you can cut/copy/paste it too!
Rule #1: To use Cut, Copy and Paste you must first highlight the item you want to Cut or Copy. See above for highlighting tips.

Action HotKey
Cut <Ctrl>+<x>
Copy <Ctrl>+<c> or
<Ctrl>+<Insert>
Paste <Ctrl>+<v> or
<Shift>+<Insert>

Related Info: Other Windows HotKey's See here