HOW TO "SELECT" TEXT

Let's work with this text:

The Bonza Bambino is The Smart Way onto the Internet.
It gets you into the Search Engines.
A slow process, takes up to a year, but it works!
Once they're in the Search Engines, some people upgrade to a full website.

We want to copy the second and third lines into a word processor. It starts with selecting the text.

Place the cursor to the left of It. Note the cursor changes from an arrow to the vertical selection symbol. Hold down the left button and move the cursor to the right of works! Take your finger off the button. Note the cursor changes back to the arrow.

Note the "selected text" is highlighted with a blue background. This denotes that text is "selected".

We have "told" the computer we want to do something with these two lines of text. Let's copy these two lines into our word processor:

HOW TO "COPY" AND "PASTE"

To "tell" the computer to make a "copy" of these two lines hold down the Control Key with your left hand. (The Control Key is marked Ctrl and is the key at the absolute bottom left of the keyboard). WHILE STILL HOLDING DOWN THE CTRL KEY, with your right hand, press C. Often, manuals will write this as "CTRL + C".

The two lines of text have now been "copied" to an imaginary "clipboard".

Open your word processor Word.

Click in a blank space in the new document so the vertical cursor appears. This is where we are going to "paste" our copied text.

Hold down the Control Key with your left hand. WHILE STILL HOLDING DOWN THE CTRL KEY, with your right hand, press V. (CTRL + V).

Magic! You have pasted the text!

Note the cursor is at the end of the text you pasted. Hit CTRL + V again. You've pasted it again. Do it a few times...

The selected text will patiently sit there on the clipboard until you copy something else. It'll then be "over written" by the new text.

HOW TO "CUT" AND "COPY"

In your Word document, you now have something like this:

It gets you into the Search Engines.
A slow process, takes up to a year, but it works!It gets you into the Search Engines.
A slow process, takes up to a year, but it works!It gets you into the Search Engines.
A slow process, takes up to a year, but it works!

Let's "cut" the first instance of the text Search Engines and "paste" it at the end of all the text: In Word, Select Search Engines. Now "cut" it with the command CTRL + X. Note how the text has "disappeared". Place the cursor at the end of all the text, and "copy" it there with CTRL + V.

Confused? These notes might help:

CTRL + C = Copy
CTRL + X = Cut
CTRL + V = Paste

DRAG AND DROP TEXT

In Word, select the line A slow process, takes up to a year, but it works!

Put the cursor anywhere in the selected text and HOLDING DOWN THE LEFT BUTTON, move the cursor to the beginning of all the text. You'll see a new cursor with a series of broken lines. Take your finger off the button. Note the text is in the new location. You have dragged it from one place and dropped it in another.