What does it mean to cut,paste,&copy and how are they performed?

Question

What does it mean to cut,paste,© and how are they performed?

Answer 1

Cut - Highlight and "cut" the item you highlighted and removing it from one part of a document

Copy - Highlighting the item and making a copy of it, leaving the original where it is at in the document

Paste - Putting the item that you either cut or copied and placing it into another part of the document.  Basically moving from one point to another.  

Answer 2

ilike...'s response is pretty good, except that instead of registry he should have said clipboard.

Select text, an image, or whatever, using the mouse and the mouse buttons.

Copy places a copy in the clipboard, leaving the original.

Cut places a copy in the clipboard, removing the original.

Paste inserts whatever is in the clipboard into the insertion point in the file.

Answer 3

Cut is when something is selected, copied, and then removed.

Copy is when something is selected, copied, but stays there.

Paste is when something that has been cut/copied is readded.

They are performed by use of the registry. When you copy/cut a certain value is added to the registry, and when you paste, that value is sent out.

Answer 4

Check these sites:

http://www.webmasternow.com/copyandpaste...

http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/...

http://www.lollie.com/happy/cutandpaste....

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorial...

http://members.aol.com/jaynecg/private/c...

If you can't find it in these, it doesn't exist.

DW