The Fast Way To Copy And Paste 
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| In most Windows applications just select your text, press CTRL+C to copy. Move your cursor where you want to paste and press CTRL+V. It's a very fast way to copy text from one place to another. Tip Credibility: 12 (Best Tip!) |
| If you're not into keyboard controls, you can also highlight your text with the mouse and then right-click in the text and select copy/paste from there instead of the top menus in an application. Tip Credibility: 11 |
| In applications like MS Word you can highlight the text, then drag it from the unwanted position to the new position. That can be quicker than using the menus. Tip Credibility: 10 |
| Another great tip for highlighting text in most windows applications is that if you double click a word it will highlight it automatically for you, and if you triple-click it will highlight the whole sentence or paragraph. You can also use CTRL-X to Cut Tip Credibility: 6 |
| If you do like keyboard shortcuts, when copying and pasting between applications you can hold down the ALT key with your thumb and press and let go of the TAB key to cycle through open applications, to switch to another application release the Alt key. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| Firefox extension AutoCopy copies any text you select (without any CTRL-C, etc.) and pastes by simply hitting the middle mouse button. Tip Credibility: 6 |
| I use clipomatic to help with copy & pasting - A clipboard cache program it remembers what was copied to the clipboard even after new data is copied, and allows you to retrieve the old data. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| The best way to copy and paste in Firefox is to is the addon AutoCopy. It makes copying an pasting multiple links, words, etc fast and easy. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| If you position your cursor at the beginning of a word, hold down the SHIFT key and press right or left arrow plus the CTRL key you'll select entire words. Keep pressing the arrow key to extend the selection to more words. Tip Credibility: 5 |
| Most linux systems are awesome at this, if you highlight text on say, ubuntu, and middle-mouse click somewhere out, it pastes what you highlight Tip Credibility: 4 |
| Another quick way to select text is to hold down the Shift button and then press either the Right or Left Arrow key (depending on where your cursor is) to select the entire line of text. Then CTRL + C to copy the text and CTRL + V to paste it. Tip Credibility: 4 |
| In Microsoft applications you can hold down ctrl whilst dragging and dropping. This will copy and paste just about anything - files, folders, text, text boxes, pictures, Excel cells, Excel sheets, PowerPoint slides, etc, etc. Tip Credibility: 4 |
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