A brief tutorial on how to COPY and PASTE

Copying & pasting is generally the easiest way of copying a small amount (text, graphics, etc) of information from one location to another location. For example, copying a serial number from an email into the AVG Anti-Virus installation program or copying text from a newsletter, and pasting it into a word processing tool, such as Microsoft Word.

Follow the simple instructions below to learn how to copy and paste quickly!

1. Copy the sentence in Box 1 that says "Copy this line" by navigating your mouse cursor to the front of the line, so it's at the beginning of the "C" in "Copy". Left click with your mouse to "set" the cursor. You will see the cursor blinking in front of the "C".

2. Keep your left mouse button pressed and DRAG your cursor to the end of the sentence until the sentence is highlighted (almost Blacked out) . Release your mouse button.

3. Now, with the sentence still highlighted, RIGHT CLICK anywhere on it. That means, click the RIGHT mouse button instead of the left button. You'll see a popup menu appear. On that menu, click on "Copy". This copies the highlighted sentence to your clip board (don't worry about what that is - just do it)

4. Now move your cursor to Box 2, and left click to set the cursor inside the box. Your cursor is blinking. Now Right click and the Popup menu appears again., choose "Paste" and the text you copied is now pasted from your clipboard into position. You can generally follow this procedure with anything on your computer. Words, pictures, files, etc. 

Box 1:

Box 2:

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