Though it seems to have been deleted, the text you cut is actually stored on the Clipboard, a special holding area in the memory of the computer. To insert the text you just cut, move the pointer to the place you want to insert it, click the mouse button, and choose Paste from the Edit menu. When you choose Paste, the text reappears at the new location. (See Figure 3-10.) The Clipboard holds only one clipping at a time. If you cut a second block of text without pasting the first block of text, the first block you cut is lost.

Figure 3-10
Pasting text

To copy a block of text, select it, then choose the Copy command from the Edit menu. This puts a copy of the selected text in the Clipboard. Next, move the pointer to the place you want to insert the text, click the mouse button, and choose Paste from the Edit menu.

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