Sammy's computer tips
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:25 am
How to Highlight, Copy and Paste
Highlight
Highlighting text is the first essential step to making computer life easier. It will be a word used in many other techniques.
Take your mouse pointer to the beginning of the text you want to copy. Hold down your left mouse button dragging the mouse pointer to the end of the text you want to copy.
Release the left mouse button when you are finished.
Try it on the paragraph above. Notice the blue color (it may be a different color on your computer) appear over the text...You've highlighted!
Copy and Paste
I know it sounds like a lot of steps to remember, but once you've done it a few time is becomes automatic. (It took me quite a while to write the instructions because I had to actually walk myself through the steps...kind of like explaining how to breath to someone )
Highlight the text you want to copy and paste.
Click your RIGHT mouse button once and a little box will appear with several words in it.
Move your mouse cursor to the word "COPY"
Click the LEFT mouse button once.
Move your mouse cursor again to where you want the text to appear
Click the LEFT mouse button again
Click the RIGHT mouse button one more time (the box will appear again)
Move you mouse to where it says "PASTE"
Click the LEFT mouse button again.
Your text should appear!
NOTE: I am REALLY bad with "left" and "right" - so if it doesn't work, let me know and I'll see what I typed wrong!
Printing TIP:
You can print this by Highlighting the text then go up to the top of you computer screen on the LEFT hand side.
Right mouse click on "File"
A box will drop down
Right mouse click on "Print"
A box should appear with printer options
Right mouse click on "Selection" (rather than "ALL" or "PAGES")
And it SHOULD print for you!
Highlight
Highlighting text is the first essential step to making computer life easier. It will be a word used in many other techniques.
Take your mouse pointer to the beginning of the text you want to copy. Hold down your left mouse button dragging the mouse pointer to the end of the text you want to copy.
Release the left mouse button when you are finished.
Try it on the paragraph above. Notice the blue color (it may be a different color on your computer) appear over the text...You've highlighted!
Copy and Paste
I know it sounds like a lot of steps to remember, but once you've done it a few time is becomes automatic. (It took me quite a while to write the instructions because I had to actually walk myself through the steps...kind of like explaining how to breath to someone )
Highlight the text you want to copy and paste.
Click your RIGHT mouse button once and a little box will appear with several words in it.
Move your mouse cursor to the word "COPY"
Click the LEFT mouse button once.
Move your mouse cursor again to where you want the text to appear
Click the LEFT mouse button again
Click the RIGHT mouse button one more time (the box will appear again)
Move you mouse to where it says "PASTE"
Click the LEFT mouse button again.
Your text should appear!
NOTE: I am REALLY bad with "left" and "right" - so if it doesn't work, let me know and I'll see what I typed wrong!
Printing TIP:
You can print this by Highlighting the text then go up to the top of you computer screen on the LEFT hand side.
Right mouse click on "File"
A box will drop down
Right mouse click on "Print"
A box should appear with printer options
Right mouse click on "Selection" (rather than "ALL" or "PAGES")
And it SHOULD print for you!