Save your fingers! Part I: Copy-and-Paste

OK, this is not another long list of keyboard shortcuts that nobody bothers to read through (I know I don't). So I am going to give it to you in bite-size.
A few at a time, aids digestion.

Now this is what I think is the most important set of keyboard shortcuts, especially if you type a lot in your work (well, who doesn't?). But if you do, and still don't know about Copy-and-Paste, you might have wasted 25% of time your at time until now. On the other hand, if you are in the majority, you would no doubt be familiar with Copy and Pasting by right-clicking your mouse and using the context menu. But being able to do it from the keyboard itself will save you seconds since you can keep your fingers on the keyboard rather than reaching for the mouse. The seconds adds up.

If you are not comfortable with using keyboard shortcuts, preservere, it pays off.

Anyway here's your time saver:

• Ctrl-C: Copy
  
• Ctrl-V: Paste
  

Simple? Just 2 keys to remember.
If you need to copy a chunk of text from one document to another,

1. simply highlight to select the text with your mouse,
   
2. press Ctrl-C (C for Copy, easy?)
3. go to the other document, at the location when you want to paste the text,
4. press Ctrl-V (why V? V is just next to C, so your fingers don't have to travel too far)
5. Done!

Oh, wait, here's more.

• Ctrl-X: Cut
  

Instead of pressing Ctrl-C, if you press Ctrl-X, the text will be 'cut' from its original document when you paste. But I seldom use it myself, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V serves me very well as it is.

Till the next time...

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