Paste
How to Paste:
When you go to the Edit menu and choose "Paste," you need to know where it will paste.Whatever was on the Clipboard will be inserted in your document beginning at the flashing insertion point. So if you want the pasted item to appear at a certain place in your document, first click the I-beam to position the insertion point.In other types of applications, like drawing and painting applications, a pasted object will usually just land in the middle of the page.If you have a range of text selected, the pasted item will replace what was selected.
As long as something is on the Clipboard, you can paste it a million times in many different applications.Exercise 10:
Paste some text.
| 1. | Because you previously cut or copied some text, you know there is text on the Clipboard waiting to be pasted. (If you didn't do Exercise 8 or 9, do one of them now so you have something on the Clipboard.)On the following page is an example of each step in the cut-and-paste process. | | 2. | Using the mouse, position the I-beam where you want to paste in the text, then click to set the insertion point. | | 3. | Go to the Edit menu and choose "Paste." The text will be pasted in beginning at that insertion point. |
And then:
| 4. | Repeat Steps 2 and 3 several more times. Notice you can keep pasting in the same text over and over. | | 5. | Cut or copy some other text, then repeat Steps 2 and 3 above. Notice you are now pasting the other text. |
Exercise 11:
Cut a paragraph and paste it somewhere else.
| 1. | Type several paragraphs on your page, if you haven't already. | | 2. | Change the formatting of the first paragraph so it looks very different: change the font, the typeface style, and the size. | | 3. | Triple-click anywhere in the formatted paragraph to select the entire paragraph. | | 4. | Use the keyboard shortcut to cut the selected paragraph: Command X. | | 5. | Set the insertion point at the end of your text and hit two Returns. | | 6. | Press Command V (the keyboard shortcut) to paste the paragraph in, starting at the insertion point. |
An example of the cut-and-paste process
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I cut the selected text. Now it's on the Clipboard, waiting for me to paste it somewhere.
Using the I-beam, I clicked right before the first word in the paragraph to set the insertion point (circled). When I paste, the text will be inserted at that insertion point.
Here is the text, after pasting it in.TipWhen I triple-clicked the line to cut it, the triple-click grabbed an invisible paragraph marker at the end of the line. When I pasted the text in, it dropped in with that paragraph marker, which gave it the space after.If you don't have space after your text and you want it, just hit a Return or two.Exercise 12:
Copy a heading from one document and paste it into another document.
| 1. | On the page you've been working with, type something like a headline. Format it (choose a font, typeface style, and size). | | 2. | Select the text you just formatted. | | 3. | Either cut or copy the selected text. | | 4. | Open a new TextEdit window: Go to the File menu and choose "New" (or use the keyboard shortcut Command N). | | 5. | In the new window (which is a new document), type a few lines. | | 6. | Set the insertion point and pastethe headline you formatted and copied from the other document is now in this new document. |
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