Cut Copy and Paste
A block of text to practice with
Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. The text of the first quarto version was of poor quality, however, and later editions corrected the text to conform more closely with Shakespeare's original.
The first order of business is to highlight a block of text you wish to work with using the "mouse".
Use this procedure
- Place the pointer next to your choice
- Now hold left click down
- While holding left click down, move mouse left, right, up or down to highlight a block of text.
- now release left click and keep pointer on highlight text.
- Then right click the highlighted area and choose Copy from the following options
- You can also copy the text by holding down the Ctrl Key and tapping the C key.
Now we have to find a place to paste the copied text like a story text editor or the message area of Email. You can paste in any edit area that you can write in like the one below.
Place the mouse pointer in the light blue area below
- tap left click once and you will see a blinking cursor like this|.
- Right click and choose Paste from the following options
- and left click it.
- You can also Paste the text by holding down the Ctrl Key and tapping the V key.
The result of your Copy and Paste will be shown here
NOTE 1
Remember the following when making a right click selection
- Cut... only Cuts Highlighted text if there is a blinking cursor.
- Copy...Copies the Highlight text to the computer's memory
- Paste...Pastes the text from the computer's memory to any area with a blinking cursor.
- Select All.. highlights ALL the text
NOTE 2
The following options will be available when you Right Click highlighted text in any Edit Areas
- Undo
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste
- Select all