Charity Bike Ride
I’m taking part in a 100mile charity bike ride on September 11th 2011.
If anyone is feeling generous, head on over to: http://www.justgiving.com/joehenstridge/ to sponsor me.
I’m doing it in aid of the Alzheimers Society.
Thanks!!
How to Copy and Paste
A nice easy set of instructions, an obvious one but uselful nonetheless …
1. Select the item
To select text you should place the cursor at one end of the text. Then hold down the shift key, and click on the other end of the text. Everything between will be selected ready for copying. The text will be highlighted once selected.
Alternatively, like above, place the cursor at the beginning of the text, click the left mouse button in, and hold it in while dragging the cursor over the text you wish to copy, release the mouse button when you have the text selected.
2. Copy into the Windows clipboard
To copy to the clipboard you should Press Ctrl-C (that means hold down the Control key and press C) It’s easy to remember, as C is short for Copy.
Alternatively, move the cursor over some of the highlighted text, and “right-click” – a menu will appear, left click on the “copy” option.
3. Position the cursor where you want to place the copied item
To do this, just click where you want the text or object to appear – this may mean opening a new program, such as “Wordpad”.
If you want to replace some text with the new text then you can select the unwanted text by following the same approach as 1. above. Step 4 will paste over the unwanted text.
4. Paste the item out of the Windows clipboard
To paste what’s in the clipboard you should Press Ctrl-V (that means hold down the Control key and press V.) It’s not so easy to remember, unless you think of V as the cross section of a pasting brush. You can Paste an item of text or an object any number of times if needed.
Alternatively, when in Wordpad, you can “right-click” on the page, and from the menu that appears, select “paste”, your text will now appear on the page.
Keyboard Shortcut Hints
Remember the Control shortcuts:
Copy - Ctrl-C
Paste - Ctrl-V
Cut - Ctrl-X
Speaker!
Been asked to do a piece on Technology at a Sci-Tech meeting group later in the year! Hmm, what to talk about????? Idea’s on a postcard!
