gloria289

Q: how do i copy and paste with the macbook pro?

i already know how to copy but how do i copy and paste text?


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Posted on May 28, 2012 12:19 PM

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Q: how do i copy and paste with the macbook pro?

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  • by Turner.Martin,

    Turner.Martin Turner.Martin May 28, 2012 5:16 PM in response to gloria289
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    May 28, 2012 5:16 PM in response to gloria289

    As same as in a normal windows device.

     

    Control + C [Copy]

    Control + V [Paste]

  • by steve359,

    steve359 steve359 May 28, 2012 5:18 PM in response to Turner.Martin
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    May 28, 2012 5:18 PM in response to Turner.Martin

    You forgot Control + X [Cut]

  • by stedman1,Helpful

    stedman1 stedman1 May 28, 2012 5:25 PM in response to gloria289
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    May 28, 2012 5:25 PM in response to gloria289

    Actually:

    Command + C (Copy)

    Command + V (Paste)

    Command + X (Cut)

     

    Or you could simply Right click the mouse and select your command from the resultant menu.

     

    Of course I could be totally wrong, now that I have noticed I'm in the Windows/Bootcamp forum

     

    Stedman

  • by steve359,

    steve359 steve359 May 28, 2012 5:24 PM in response to stedman1
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    May 28, 2012 5:24 PM in response to stedman1

     

     

    I cannot think of a proper "We dont need no stinkin' ..."

  • by Turner.Martin,

    Turner.Martin Turner.Martin May 28, 2012 5:25 PM in response to stedman1
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    May 28, 2012 5:25 PM in response to stedman1

    Are you sure? Command are in OSX, I've been using control on bootcamp

  • by steve359,

    steve359 steve359 May 28, 2012 5:42 PM in response to Turner.Martin
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    May 28, 2012 5:42 PM in response to Turner.Martin

    The keyboard label is "command", also a squiggly square thing that is "god" in OSX.

     

    I am confusing people again, including me (good catch stedman1). Bowing out, but will leabe you with these:

     

    Leaving mapping to the official source ...

     

    This is BootCamp mapping of a wireless keyboard ...

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1171

     

    And another article on keyboard mapping

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1220

  • by stedman1,

    stedman1 stedman1 May 28, 2012 5:32 PM in response to Turner.Martin
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    May 28, 2012 5:32 PM in response to Turner.Martin

    Turner.Martin wrote:

     

    Are you sure? Command are in OSX, I've been using control on bootcamp

    Not sure any more...... See my addendum to my first post.

  • by ReMacs,

    ReMacs ReMacs May 29, 2012 2:39 AM in response to gloria289
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    May 29, 2012 2:39 AM in response to gloria289


    Only need mouse to drag/drop, copy/paste anything.  For text, pressing left clicker while moving cursor over area to copy shows blue area selected.  When you have area highlit, right-click on blue selecting Copy.
    Right-click in the location that you want to Paste.

     

    You can create New Text Document or Folder etc. in locations by right-click->New 

     

    Use Keyboard "Shift" key for Multiple object operations.
    Picture etc. Copy/Delete/Renumber:
    place cursor on 1st which will be selected when it shows blue highligt; Press Shift then place cursor over last item. This will highlight multiple objects that can then be right-click Deleted, Copied, Printed, Renamed etc.


    Camera note:
    If you are ever at an event where multiple people are taking/sharing pictures, it is good idea to get camera time correct in cameras so that when shared, they can be see in sequence by sort on Date Taken no matter what the picture names might be. 

  • by garyfrombury ,

    garyfrombury garyfrombury Dec 29, 2014 4:04 PM in response to gloria289
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    Dec 29, 2014 4:04 PM in response to gloria289

    i just got my macbook this week so i am a new to this operating system  but i have had problems  with this myself ,I have found that if you highlight the text you wish to copy , then click on the touchpad with two fingers you can select copy or paste in the box that appears . atb gary.

  • by Rudegar,

    Rudegar Rudegar Dec 30, 2014 5:53 AM in response to garyfrombury
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    Dec 30, 2014 5:53 AM in response to garyfrombury

    you can also click in the menu on the top called Edit it would control the copy,paste too

  • by delshade,

    delshade delshade Oct 20, 2015 6:36 PM in response to garyfrombury
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    Oct 20, 2015 6:36 PM in response to garyfrombury

    amazing! thank you

  • by bboeri,

    bboeri bboeri Feb 25, 2016 9:11 AM in response to gloria289
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    Feb 25, 2016 9:11 AM in response to gloria289

    I understand all the various keyboard and mouse procedures for copy/pasting.  The answer gets more complicated when you have an OSX 10 system running Windows 10 under Parallels.

     

    What do you actually get on the Mac when you copy/paste (e.g., from MacBook Pro version of Chrome)?  I found that when I copied from Mac-Chrome and then pasted into a Windows based program (such as WebPlus), although I saw only text after the paste, I apparently was also pasting certain other invisible-to-me characters (such as HTML codes).  The result was that WebPlus did not work correctly, and it even seemed as though my Windows app was corrupt.  Turns out that when I did everything within Windows 10, (copy/pasting to the app), everything worked fine.

     

    So how do you copy/paste from OSX to Windows on a MacBook Chrome, and assure you are getting only the text you see, not possibly hidden codes such as HTML from a website?

     

    I am running OSX 10.11.3 on the Mac side, and Windows 10 under Parallels 11.1.2 for Mac.

  • by BobTheFisherman,

    BobTheFisherman BobTheFisherman Feb 25, 2016 9:15 AM in response to gloria289
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    Feb 25, 2016 9:15 AM in response to gloria289

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