What does "cut & paste" mean on a computer?

Question

What does "cut & paste" mean on a computer?

Answer 1

First answer is correct, however it also includes moving text around, say 2 paragraphs in the wrong order, you 'cut' one out and 'paste' it where you want it.

This is done using simple mouse controls and/or control keys on the keyboard.

Answer 2

'Cut', 'Copy' and 'Paste' are the the commands which you can use them on files, folders, drives, text etc.. by right clicking on their icons or you can also use them from DOS prompt. Type "<command name> help" to show the help related to the <command name>.

1. Copy command will tell the windows to copy the file's path and store's it on clipboard.

2. Cut command will tell the windows to copy the file's/folder's path and then after you use paste command and everything is pasted succesfully, windows will delete the original file.

3. Paste command pastes the orginial file/folder to a location specified by the user. It will keep the original file if you have made the copy command before or it will delete the orginal file after copying it succesfully, if not copied succesfully windows will keep the original file.

Note that copying/cutting a folder and then pasting it will copy/move all of the folder's contents including the sub directories.

Answer 3

First time I heard that you can use cut and paste from DOS... Interesting!!

K:\>paste help

'paste' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

K:\>cut help

'cut' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Answer 4

When you regularly copy something but when you paste it the file is moved from the original folder to the folder you pasted it. But instead of having two copies. You only have one (the one you pasted)

Answer 5

It means to take a part of a document/web page, etc, and put it onto another document. To do this you high light the portion of the document you want to move, then right click on your mouse, and choose "cut" from the drop down menu.  Then go to the new document and right click on the spot you want to put the new information, and choose "paste" from the drop down menu.

Answer 6

Moving text somewhere else.  You do this by:

Highlighting your text, then

Ctrl-C

Ctrl-X

Ctrl-V at the new location

or, this can be done by right-clicking

Answer 7

Cut and Paste option means Computer will remove original file/folder/program whatever selected from the specified field by cut command and  transfer the same immediately at the specified location selected by paste command. simply it is transfer / moving of data from one placce to another in the same computer.  

Answer 8

Simply, when whatever data is moved to another location. Technically, whenever a data address to a piece of data is changed and not NULLed. You can usually do this on a computer by pressing CTRL-X after highlighting data and CTRL-V in where ever you want to move the data to.