Cutting is the technical term for deleting text. Pasting is placing text in a new location in your document. Copying allows you to take a copy of your text and place it in another location in your document.

When you cut or copy text, Word automatically copies this text to a special place in RAM called the clipboard . Once text is on the clipboard, it can be copied or pasted anywhere else in the document, in another document, or any other Windows application.

Cutting Text

Highlight the first three sentences.
Click Edit on the menu bar.
Click Cut

Note the shortcut key combination to the right of the word Cut. You can press Ctrl X instead of clicking File, Cut. You can also use the Cut button on the format toolbar. Any of these three methods will cut the highlighted text.

The highlighted text disappears.

Now your turn! Try it!