The Clipboard (Copy and Paste)

If you do not know what the Clipboard is but you do know about Copy & Paste (control-C/V), it is the same thing. The Clipboard is the name of the location where copied material is temporarily stored.

Important: The clipboard is part of every modern operating system, such as MS Windows or MacOS. Haxial should not have to explain this to you -- Haxial did not produce the clipboard. You should read the documentation that comes with your operating system if you want to know how to use the clipboard. It is NOT Haxial's responsibility to provide technical support for products produced by other companies. However, here are the basic instructions:

The clipboard is a place in your system where you can copy things to, such as text, pictures, etc. Once you have copied something to the clipboard, you can then "paste" it somewhere, and the copied material appears where you pasted it. The clipboard is very useful for transferring information from one program to another, or from one document to another.

These instructions will teach you about copying and pasting text:

1. First you need a program that supports the clipboard. You are reading this in a web browser, probably Internet Explorer, so that is perfect, you can start here.

2. In order to copy something to the clipboard, you need to select WHAT you want to copy. Move the mouse here, press the mouse button and hold it down, then drag the mouse a few lines down the page, then release the mouse button. The text changes colors to indicate that you have selected it. Here is a picture:

3. Now hold down the Control/Ctrl key on your keyboard (or the Command/Apple key if you are on a Mac), and while keeping it held down, press the 'C' key. 'C' is for Copy. Now you have copied the selected text to the clipboard.

4. Now you need to decide where you would like to "paste" the text. Open another program with text editing capabilities, such as MS Word, Notepad, SimpleText, an E-mail program, etc. Find somewhere where you can type text, and click in it. Like this:

5. Now hold down the Control/Ctrl key on your keyboard (or the Command/Apple key if you are on a Mac), and while keeping it held down, press the 'V' key, which does the "Paste" command. The text that you had copied appears:

6. There, now you know all about Copy and Paste and the Clipboard.