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Drag-and-drop

Term used to describe the process of clicking an object or highlighted text and dragging it to another location. For example, a user may highlight a word in a text document click and drag-and-drop that word elsewhere in the document. Dragging and dropping text or another object such an icon will move it to another location but not make a copy of it.

Tip: Often holding down the Ctrl key while dragging and dropping text or another object will copy the object or text to a new location.

Also see: Click, Drag, Mouse definitions

 

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