The Right Mouse Button

Click the right mouse button on any object. The right mouse button will open a drop-down menu with options that can be used with the object the right click cursor was over, such as (Cut, Copy, Paste, Save As.., Bookmark, etc.). It will only open this non obtrusive menu and not cause any other action.

Give it a try! Right-click one of the graphics on this page. The right mouse button will always open a menu of action operations that can performed on the object.

Selecting Text

Left click the mouse just to the left of bold sentence below. Keeping the left mouse button pressed, drag the mouse down to the sentence end and release the button. [Notice the text selected is highlighted.

This practice text is here for you try new select text skills.

Using shortcut keys to Cut, Copy, Paste, and Undo

You can use the shortcut keys to cut, copy, or paste any selected text. Holding down the Control or CMD button and pressing the appropriate key will perform the corresponding action from the list below:

Caution: You should not cut and paste from a web page and use it verbatim. There are copyright laws. The most recent laws are outlining some guidelines. The well-defined rules that copyright law protects is expression, not ideas; and elements of an original work are not protected when the “common idea is only capable of expression in more or less stereotyped form.”

Copying a text format technique is of itself, not an act of copyright infringement, so long as the text expressions are not verbatim or obviously copied when compared side-by-side. Copyright grants a monopoly in expression, not ideas.-- just make sure it doesn’t follow the same order, or use the identical word choice.