What does "cut & paste" mean on a computer?

Question

What does "cut & paste" mean on a computer?

Answer 1

It means to take a part of a document/web page, etc, and put it onto another document. To do this you high light the portion of the document you want to move, then right click on your mouse, and choose "cut" from the drop down menu. Then go to the new document and right click on the spot you want to put the new information, and choose "paste" from the drop down menu.

Answer 2

Don't feel bad, you have to start learning somewhere, and nobody knows from the beginning - we all had to learn some time :) "cut and paste" referrs to taking information (text or picture) from one place to another. Think of it as cutting out of the newspaper and pasting it onto a poster. Say you wanted to move a paragraph in your essay from the top to the bottom, rather than retyping it you can "cut" it from the top and "paste" it where you want. Same principle goes for pictures. I'll use Word as the example but most programs you can do this with the same steps: Hilight (hold left-click and drag, then release) text or pictures, then click the right mouse button and on the pop-up menu choose "copy" or "cut". Then click the left mouse button where you want to insert that (makes the blinking insert line move there). Now click the right mouse button and on the pop-up menu click "paste" and the info you hilighted will appear. Once you feel comfortable with that you could learn a couple of the "shortcuts" on the keyboard to do this... CTRL+C = copy CTRL+X = cut CTRL+V = paste To do a shortcut you hold down the "control" key (usually bottom left/right of keyboard labeled CTRL or CONTROL) and while holding it you press/release the corrisponding letter on the keyboard before releasing the "control" key. Some people like using the keyboard, others like using the mouse. Personally I switch between them depending how I feel or where my hand is at the moment. Definitions: Cut: copies the hilighted text/picture to the "clipboard" and deletes it from where it is now. Copy: copies the hilighted text/picture to the "clipboard" and leaves it at where it is now too. Paste: inserts whatever is on the "clipboard" (if anything) where the blinking insert line is Clipboard: a special place in the computer that temporarialy stores whatever you are copying or cutting. It's erased when you turn off the computer or copy/cut something else.

Answer 3

Cut and Paste option means Computer will remove original file/folder/program whatever selected from the specified field by cut command and transfer the same immediately at the specified location selected by paste command. simply it is transfer / moving of data from one placce to another in the same computer.

Answer 4

'Cut', 'Copy' and 'Paste' are the the commands which you can use them on files, folders, drives, text etc.. by right clicking on their icons or you can also use them from DOS prompt. Type " help" to show the help related to the .



1. Copy command will tell the windows to copy the file's path and store's it on clipboard.



2. Cut command will tell the windows to copy the file's/folder's path and then after you use paste command and everything is pasted succesfully, windows will delete the original file.



3. Paste command pastes the orginial file/folder to a location specified by the user. It will keep the original file if you have made the copy command before or it will delete the orginal file after copying it succesfully, if not copied succesfully windows will keep the original file.



Note that copying/cutting a folder and then pasting it will copy/move all of the folder's contents including the sub directories.

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What does "cut & paste" mean on a computer?

Answer 6

Simply, when whatever data is moved to another location. Technically, whenever a data address to a piece of data is changed and not NULLed. You can usually do this on a computer by pressing CTRL-X after highlighting data and CTRL-V in where ever you want to move the data to.

Answer 7

First answer is correct, however it also includes moving text around, say 2 paragraphs in the wrong order, you 'cut' one out and 'paste' it where you want it.

This is done using simple mouse controls and/or control keys on the keyboard.

Answer 8

First time I heard that you can use cut and paste from DOS... Interesting!!



K:\>paste help

'paste' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.



K:\>cut help

'cut' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Answer 9

When you regularly copy something but when you paste it the file is moved from the original folder to the folder you pasted it. But instead of having two copies. You only have one (the one you pasted)

Answer 10

Moving text somewhere else. You do this by:

Highlighting your text, then

Ctrl-C

Ctrl-X

Ctrl-V at the new location

or, this can be done by right-clicking