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Copy

1. To duplicate text, data, files, or disks, enabling you to have two or more copies of the same file or segments of data. Copying a file to an alternate location such as a floppy disk drive is a common procedure for backing up or sharing a file. 

To copy text follow the below steps.

  1. Highlight the text you wish to copy, this could be one word, one line, a paragraph or all of the text in the document.
  2. Click Edit from the top menu in the program and click Copy

    or

    Right-click the selected text and select copy.

  3. Once the above steps have been done the text will be moved into a temporary area known as the clipboard. You can then paste the text any number of times into any other document until something else is moved into the clipboard.

2. Command used in a command line operating system such as MS-DOS to copy a file from one directory to another.

  • See our copy command page for additional information about the MS-DOS copy command.
  • See our cp command page for additional information about the Linux / Unix copy command.

Also see: Clipboard, Cut, Move, Paste

 

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