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Copy/Paste keyboard shortcut [1]

May 7, 2020 by UIS Communications [2]

Tired of right-clicking in all your documents to do some of the most common – and frequent – tasks? Keyboard shortcuts can make your computer experience quicker and easier. Copy and paste between documents with ease using this week’s keyboard shortcut.

With the desired text/object highlighted, press Ctrl+C (Cmd+C in MacOS) to Copy that item onto your clipboard. Put your cursor where you would like to place the text/object and press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V in MacOS) to Paste.

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