- [Instructor] Most people are already familiar
with moving text, using cut, copy and paste,
but there are some special tools that Word offers
to make copying and pasting more efficient.
I'm going to select this line of text
and one really easy way to move something
is to just drag it.
So with this text selected, I'll put my mouse on top of it,
hold the mouse button down and drag.
And you'll see that this cursor follows my mouse,
so I can move that cursor where I want to place the text,
let go, and it moves that text there.
Okay, so that's one way to do it.
For now, I'm going to click the undo button
in the quick access toolbar to undo that move.
Now let's try using copy and paste to move something.
I'll select this first line of text,
and then I want to copy it.
You can use the keyboard shortcut,
which is Control C, if you use Windows,
or Command C, if you use a Mac,
or you can go to the home ribbon
and choose the copy button.
You'll see when I click on that,
it looks like nothing has happened,
but it has copied that text.
So what you can do is go to another spot in your document,
or maybe over to another document entirely,
and I'm going to click to place my cursor,
I'll hit the return key a few times
to start a new paragraph,
and I want to paste that text there.
To paste it, you could use the keyboard shortcut
on Windows that would be Control V,
or on Mac it would be Command V,
or you can go to the home ribbon
and you can click the paste button
and you can see that text has been pasted there.
Now, when you copy something and paste it like this,
you've actually made a copy.
So while we do see the text there where we pasted it,
it's still there in the original location.
So next, let's see how to cut and paste something.
So, I'm going to go back to the second page,
and I'm going to select this line of text,
and this time instead of copying it, I'm going to cut it.
The keyboard shortcut for that is Control X
if you use Windows or Command X, if you use a Mac,
or you can go to the home ribbon and choose cut.
And this time, as soon as I click that cut button,
it does disappear from the original location.
Then I can place my cursor where I want to paste it,
and I'll just go to the home ribbon
and click the paste button.
So cut and paste is really good
if you do not want it to appear in both locations.
Okay, so let's see what else we can do
with pasting text in Word.
I'm going to go back to that first line in the document
and I'm going to select it.
Now, this text has some formatting applied to it,
or to be clear, all texts has formatting
that defines the size and the font and so on.
But the point here is that the formatting on this line
is very noticeably different from the rest of the document.
So if I copy and paste it,
I get to choose whether it will have that same formatting.
So with that selected,
I'm going to go to the home ribbon and I'll click copy,
and then I'm going to click somewhere else in the document,
to place my cursor, let's just start a new paragraph there.
But this time, instead of just using the keyboard shortcut
or hitting the paste button in the home ribbon,
I'm going to go to the home ribbon,
and I'm going to click this arrow below the paste button,
or if you use a Mac,
that arrow will be to the right of the paste button.
And that will open up this menu with a few other options.
And I'm going to talk about these, but if you use Windows,
you'll see that you can just point at them
and you'll get a preview of what they will look like
if you choose that option.
But I'm not going to do any of these yet.
Instead, I want to talk about how they work
starting with this first option
which is keep, source, formatting.
That is the same as the normal paste command.
The text will be pasted with the formatting that it had
when you copied it.
The second option merge formatting
means that it will mostly have the formatting
of the paragraph where you're pasting it.
Though for some specially formatted items
it might keep some settings from the original text.
The option for picture will actually convert
what you copied into a picture and paste that picture.
But then there's the option for keep text only,
that removes all of the formatting from the original text.
When you paste it,
it will have the formatting of the closest paragraph
where you paste it.
So I'm going to actually do that,
I'll click on that and you can see it simply paste the text
without the original formatting.
And of course we just copied and paste a text,
but you can also copy and paste other objects,
including pictures, shapes, and tables,
objects that we'll explore in other videos.