You probably notice that sometimes things take you longer than they do
other people when you're doing something on the computer
and oftentimes that's because somebody else knows a quick shortcut
that allows them to get that work done just a little bit faster.
So today I'm going to teach you a really important one, and that's
how to move text from one place to another with a quick command.
So let's look at the least efficient way to do it first.
You can highlight the text and then go up to the 'Edit' button
and here you could choose to cut that text
entirely, in which case you'll see that it's gone,
and then if you wanted to paste that text onto another document,
you could go here and go to 'Edit,' 'Paste.' Now let's say that you want that text to
move over to the other page but you don't want to cut it from this
one. You can simply repeat that process, go to 'Edit,' but this time go to 'Copy,'
go to the second document, 'Edit,' 'Paste.' Now you'll see that that sentence
is on both documents, so you did not actually cut it,
but that was relatively slow. You had to highlight the entire text
and then go up here to 'Edit' and that is going to take a lot of time and that
is simply not the most efficient way of doing it. So another option is that
you can highlight the text and then either two finger click or
right click, depending on your mouse pad, and then pull up the menu to either cut
or copy. So again, I could cut it and then I would be able to paste it
onto another document, again by either putting two fingers on
the mouse pad or right clicking, and clicking 'Paste.' Now
that was a little bit faster, but with a keyboard command we can do it
even more efficiently. Now these keyboard commands are different depending on what
kind of a computer you use. So first let's talk about how to do it
if you are on an Apple computer. If you're on an Apple
computer, you can highlight the text and then click Command+C to copy,
place the mouse cursor where you want the text to go, and click
Command+V to paste. If instead of copying the text
you want to cut the text, go ahead and highlight that text,
click Command+X, and then in order to paste it again, we'll go
over to this other document this time, you click Command+V. And since I did that
initial command, I can replicate the paste over
and over and over by clicking Command+V. Now the only difference on a
Chromebook is that instead of Command+C, Command+X and Command+V,
you're going to hit 'Control.' So it will be the same process,
but again on the Chromebook you will hit Control+C
to copy, Control+X to cut, and Control+V
to paste. Let's go back to our original sentence where we just had one
on the page. There's a way to copy and paste this sentence even more
efficiently, but only if you want to copy or cut and
paste all of the words on a single page. So
here, I can actually skip that step of
highlighting the text and instead, if I'm on an Apple computer,
click Command+A. Command+A will highlight every single thing on a page and then I
can click Command+X and Command+v to paste.
So let's say that I have a text like this
and there's lots of text on the page. I could, of course, manually drag that mouse
over, but if I have to do that over and over
again, it's not as efficient. So instead I'm going to click Command+A
to get all of the text. If I want to move it somewhere else,
I'll click Command+X, go over to another document,
and click Command+V. And remember, once I've cut the text,
I can continue to paste it over and over and over again. And then if I wanted to
get rid of all that text on the page because I realized, oops I didn't mean to
put it all there, rather than trying to do this process of
highlighting all the text or scrolling up and highlighting
different pieces, all you need to do is click Command+A
again, that will select all of your text, and then you could click 'Delete' and that
will get rid of it. So again the process is almost identical
if you're using a Chromebook, except instead of 'Command,' you're going
to hit 'Control.' So now let's put that all together and
see how quickly I'm able to move this text around
with those commands. Command+A to select all, Command+X
to cut it, Command+V to paste it. Much faster than our initial method. So
again, use your commands in order to be able to
do things with your computer much more quickly and efficiently and I
also bet that you're going to like using computers a lot more
once you figure out all these little shortcuts.