How to Cut and Paste with WebTV [If you have a printer, Print this page for reference.] Always Reload this page to see the latest information, from the Options bar or by using the Cmd and R keys at the same time. Updated 09/15/02 You should see a blinking red cursor below in the Form Box. Type two or three sentences into it. The box will expand automatically to fit more text: Form Box: With your red cursor still in the Form Box along with your text, hold down the Cmd key near the bottom left of your keyboard and at the same time press the letter A key [just small letter a, not capital A]. Cmd-A highlights All of your text. To Cut and Paste, you must highlight the desired text. [For this next step, turn the Volume up on your TV as high as it can go. You should hear a "click" when you do the following step, to indicate you have made an copy in the "Copy buffer," a temporary electronic storage area.] Press Cmd-C to Copy the highlghted text Move your cursor down into the Test box, below and use Cmd-V to paste it in. [The "V" looks like the symbol used in proofreading to indicate where to insert text]. Test Box: Press the Find key and type in the same first word you typed in the Form box; then press Return. You should see the first word in the Form Box become highlighted Hold down the Shift key and at he same time use the Right Arrow keys to highlight several words. [Shift-Right Arrow] Use Cmd-X to "cut out" just that portion of your text and store it in the electronic copy buffer. [The "X" looks like an opened pair of scissors]. Move your cursor down into the Test Box with the Up Arrow key and use Cmd-V to paste that in. [the "V" looks like the symbol used in proofreading to indicate where to insert text into a document.] Practice using Find, Cmd-A or Shift-Arrow to highlight text in either box. Move your cursor into the other box and use Cmd-C or Cmd-X to put that text into the Copy buffer. Then use Cmd-V to insert the text from the Copy buffer into either box. Now highlight from the end of a sentence backward to the beginning of a sentence, using Shift plus the Left Arrow keys. Use Shift-Up Arrow or Shift-Down Arrow to see what that highlights. Use Shift-Scroll Upor Shift-Scroll Down to see what that highlights. Clear both boxes by using Cmd-A, then the Delete key, in each. Copy and Paste the first three paragraphs from "A Short History of Cut and Paste," below, into either empty box. Highlight a sentence in that box using Find and Shift-Arrow. Move that sentence above or below its original location in the box. Then move an entire paragraph above or below its original location. Now move all the modified text into the other box. Remember, you can clear the entire box area by using Cmd-A and the Delete key if you need to start over. Continue practicing using Find, Shift plus the Arrow and Scroll keys, Cmd-A, Cmd-C, Cmd-X and Cmd-V until you remember how to do it, or return to this page to practice whenever you want. The text in the Copy buffer remains there and can be inserted, or pasted, multiple times with Cmd-V until you: Copy or cut other text Power off, or Switch users. Learning how to Cut and Paste is single most valuable skill you can learn for computer typing, word processing and for copying text from emails and web pages to insert into new emails, etc.. A Short History of Cut and Paste In the era before computers and word processing, people would first type or hand-write an entire first draft of a document. They would then use scissors to cut out sentences, paragraphs and sections from the sheets of paper and move the cut-out pieces around and tape or paste them to blank sheets of paper until they got the entire document into a final form. Then they would laboriously re-type the whole document in that order. This is where "Cut and Paste" got its name. And Yes, I'm old enough to have actually done this. Fortunately, doing it electronically is a lot quicker and less messy! Friendly WebTV Help HTML sigs OFF, Please! WebTV Printer Help Newsgroup Saverio's WebTV Help Pages Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Email Saverio (Los Angeles, CA): Powered by IOM Began counting 11/19/01: <