If you have the skill set of operational text, and to quickly deal with the keyboard shortcuts.
CONTENT
- 1 The classic way to copy text on the keyboard for documents on a PC with Windows and MacOS
- 2 Alternative methods of copying with the keyboard
- 3 Other useful combinations for working with text
The classic way to copy text on the keyboard for documents on a PC with Windows and MacOS
Let us consider with you the easiest option of copying the typed text in any text editor, including Notepad, WordPad, and microsoft Word. This applies to both Windows and MacOS systems, for English versions of operating systems provides a copy-paste version.
Please note that these gaming keyboard combinations may be available.
How to select the text and its individual fragments to copy
Before transferring the required entry necessarily stands out, and then it used some manipulation to save to your clipboard. Let's see how this works in practice.
| Illustration | Description of the action |
| Make a triple-click on the selected text fragment: it will be covered with gray or blue background - isolated. | |
| To perform a selection of the text at once, regardless of how many pages it takes, use the key combination «Ctrl + A». | |
| To highlight the entire page, you can take advantage of such a combination on the keyboard: «Shift + PgUp». |
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When the text selection and manipulation of others for its transfer from one document to another, not necessarily to change the language layout of the keyboard.
How to change the scale of a Word document, if it is a multi-page
Before copying text or its individual pages may need to use a few pages at the beginning and end of the document. Not to look for them scrolling the mouse wheel, you can connect the tool to zoom.
When you get used to the keyboard shortcuts, you can use them blindly.
Open your file and pay attention to the bottom right corner of the program and you will see that the default page size is specified as 100%. To change this behavior and to reduce it to display more pages on the screen, move the slider to the left to a few units - you will immediately see how to change the display of pages.
If some combinations do not work, then test the use of keys and, of course, the presence of the driver.
data backup method
Having dealt with the features highlight whole text or its fragments, you can start up the main rules.
| Illustration | Description of the action |
| Open the text, then select and fragment stretch on it from the beginning to the end of the left mouse button - or perform a triple-click. | |
| Next, we perform up: do rollover «Ctrl + C» | |
| If for some reason, perform push-button backup is inconvenient, you can open the document, select text, and then go to the "Home" tab at the top of the screen and in the "Clipboard" block press "Copy". |
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Be careful to exclude all subsequent copy of the text as long as the previously copied element will not be moved or inserted in the right place.
How to insert text
Insertion is usually carried out immediately after the copying of the text. All you need to do - is to open a new document and press the key combination «Ctrl + V». Or to find a free space on the page, set the cursor to where you want to paste the copied item, click RMB (right mouse button) and select "Paste".
In this case, several options may be asked: if an intention to keep the entire structure of the text, choose a type of insert "preserving original formatting."
Try to use not only the usual combination of buttons, and rarely pay attention and new.
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Make text wrapping and can be in the form of an image, for this just take a screen shot, edit it and save it as an object in a new document.
Alternative methods of copying with the keyboard
You agree to use keyboard shortcuts at times more convenient than a search for the appropriate tools. Therefore we offer to your attention even more alternative combinations that become peers with the copy operation.
- An excellent substitute command Ctrl + C is the combination of keys Ctrl + Insert.
- Combination insert is easy to replace the keys Shift + Insert.
- Have you tried to press the key combination Shift + Delete? This is the same as the Ctrl + X, the combination corresponds to the tool "Scissors" in a text editor.
With the insertion parameters understood. Let's discuss what else can an ordinary computer keyboard in the work with the Microsoft Word application.
Other useful combinations for working with text
There are a number of tricks, which you did not know. They will help to correctly perform manipulation of the text and its parts. For example, such embodiments will be useful when you need to do something very quickly, without going into details and subtleties of built-in utilities.
For example, combinations with Ctrl and Shift keys can highlight whole words, if, in addition to use the arrow buttons "Left" and "Right": combinations Ctrl + Shift + Ctrl + ← and Shift + →. Place the text cursor in front of certain words, and then press the key combination Shift + Home, then the text will stand out from the start line to the cursor position.
In addition to these combinations, there are still hundreds of possibilities to adjust for themselves through the Word keyboard.
To move the text from the end to the beginning, you need to press the key combination Ctrl + Home simultaneously. Combinations of buttons make it easy to work with the text, and to quickly learn and use them automatically, you need to practice every time you format text.
Dear users, if you would like to continue to use the context menu, but to cope with copying and pasting text is faster help keyboard shortcuts. If you are interested at some point or fails to perform combination, please contact us in the comments.
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