Copy and Paste Skills

All computers have a short term memory bank called the "clipboard." Unless you install special software, the clipboard will remember one thing at a time that you copy. This can be a bunch of text, an image file, or a sound file.

Multitasking: Using more than one software application at a time.
When we copy and paste text or multimedia elements, usually we need to multitask. This means that more than one application is open at the same time.

Copy and Paste Instructions (Mac/Windows)

Open a web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer, also called "IE") and a word processor (ClarisWorks or Word.)
To show the desktop, go to the upper right corner:

MAC: Hide a program by clicking on the corner icon and choosing "hide application"
WIN: Minimize a program by clicking the button in the corner of the window on the minimize icon: the flat line. ()

To switch to another application already running/launched:

MAC: Click on the corner icon and select the application you want to make "active"
WIN: Click on the minimized icon at the bottom of the screen to make a different application "active"

TO COPY AND PASTE TEXT:

Go to the webpage in Netscape/IE which contains the info you want.
Highlight the text you want to copy by clicking and dragging.
From the EDIT menu, choose COPY. (or right click and choose copy)
Switch into your Word Processor (make it "active")
Click where you want to put the text
From the EDIT menu, choose PASTE.

TO COPY AND PASTE PICTURES/GRAPHICS: (On a Windows computer, this only works with IE)

Go to the webpage in Internet Explorer which contains the picture/graphic you want.
Move your mouse over the graphic you want to copy
Copy the picture by:

MAC: Click the mouse button and hold it down till you see a popup menu, then choose to "COPY IMAGE"
WIN: Click with the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON on the picture, and from the popup menu choose to "COPY."

Switch into your word processor (make it "active")
Click where you want to put the text
From the EDIT menu, choose PASTE.