 Hello everyone, this is Amit Don of AmitDon.com. If this is your first time here or a repeat visit, thank you for your support. On this channel I am always trying new and different ideas. If that is something you are interested in, please visit for more. If you are only interested in tutorial videos, there will be links in the description box below. Today I am going to talk about how to copy, cut and paste in Microsoft Word. So I have a document or an article which is a travel article right here and this is my Egypt travel journal which I have been publishing on my website AmitDon.com and also you are able to see the video on my YouTube channel which you can check out after watching this video. So in order to copy that which allows you to copy anything from one part to another part of a document. So you can just let's say copy a word sentence or a paragraph or any portion. So the first thing you need to do whenever you would like to copy or cut something, so you have to highlight that part. So let's highlight this portion right here and then if you take a look on the home tab which is right here and then on the upper left corner of your document, then you are going to see that you have now some options. For example the copy and cut part is giving you an option to click on it. So just pay attention here if I remove that highlight part then you are going to see that you know these options are gone. So these options come when you are highlighting a part of the document or anything on a document. So that means that you have now the option to copy and cut that part. The difference between copy and cut is that you can think of it as duplicating and deleting. So if you're copying something, so basically you're just duplicating that part and the original part you're copying from is still there. It doesn't go anywhere but when you're cutting something then it's like deleting that part. So this part is going to go away or will be deleted if you're cutting that part. So that's the only difference between copy and cut. So now we have highlighted the portion you'd like to copy and then once you click on copy or put your cursor on copy then you're going to see another option which is copy control plus C. So basically it's giving you the keyboard shortcut which would let you copy without touching the mouse or the cursor and you can just use keyboard shortcut command control C to copy. So that's another way of copying it. So we'd like to use the mouse for now. So in order to copy that you're just going to have to click on it. So let's click and then you will see that I'll take my cursor to a new part of the document and here in order to paste it or paste what I copied you can come back here and then you see that you know it's giving you a paste option and before I paste on it you can see that you know again it's giving you a keyboard shortcut which is control and V. So you can also paste it without touching the mouse or the cursor and you can just use keyboard shortcut command control and V. So now if I click on paste then you're going to see that you know it pasted the document or the part right here which I copied and then it's just giving me a few other options. So if I click on it you can see that you know it's just telling you whether you'd like to keep the text only or picture if you have a picture or if you'd like to merge formatting. So basically merge formatting means that you know if you're just like you know copying the same formatting from the portion you copied but for most of us if you're just plain copying you can just choose keep text only then it's going to go away and you can see that you know it's just copied. If you'd like to see how cut works then it's the same thing. So you're going to be just highlighting this part again and instead of clicking on copy we're going to click on cut or you can use the control X which is a keyboard shortcut command. You don't have to touch the mouse if you want. So let's click on cut. Now you can see that that part is gone because you know I deleted that part and basically I have to just you know paste that part here. So once I put out my cursor here then I can just paste it here or I can use the keyboard shortcut command control V. So let's say paste it and then I have this part here but the original part is gone so that's how you can copy and paste. Another way you can copy instead of going to this section is that you can highlight that portion and just right click on inside the highlighted part. So if you right click on it then you're going to see that it's giving you both the copy and cut option. So if you just you know pick one of them let's say copy and then if you just put cursor here where you want that to be copied and then right click on it. Now you can see that you're getting the paste option and you can just like you know keep text only and if you do that then you see that you know you pasted the same part again so that's another way of doing it and then you can do the same thing for cut as well because basically they're the same command or same thing just different way you have to cut instead of copy. Another cool trick to show you is that you can actually move a portion of the document without even you know using copy cut and paste so all you have to do just highlight that portion you'd like to move and you don't have to actually right click inside that highlighted portion so all you have to do just you know hold your cursor on here and then just drag the whole thing and if you just let your cursor go then you can see that you know it just moved the whole section from here to here it's kind of like you know cutting a larger portion and putting it somewhere else and it just like you know happens that you don't have to use the copy cut or other options it's kind of dragging and dropping from a portion of the document so before I end to this video I'd like just like to show you something else whenever you're copying something then there's a thing called clipboard in a Microsoft word which is kind of like you know a slate or a notepad or a place where it keeps like you know the all the stuff you're copying and you can just go back there so for example you can see that you know it says clipboard here and if you click on this tiny arrow right here then you see that you know it's opening up all the parts you copied and then if you'd like to copy from here or if you'd like to paste from here you can do that without even going back and forth so for example let's say I have my cursor here and I would like to paste from this part or let's say from this part so if I highlight this or if I put my cursor on here and then if I choose this arrow then it's giving the option to delete or paste so if I just click on paste and you can see that it's pasting right here from here and if you want to open the clear the clipboard so if you just you know click on here clear all then it's going to erase everything so another option is that you know you can also paste all from the clipboard just by clicking here and then here's another option that you know you can do with clipboard what it can do or what you don't want it to do so basically it gives you many options but the basic copy and paste option is what I showed you in the beginning and that's the way you know you can easily copy cut and paste in Microsoft Word thank you for watching this video if you like what you see please give it a thumbs up and there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you