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how do i copy and paste with the macbook pro?

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

MacBook Pro

Posted on May 28, 2012 12:19 PM

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Posted on May 28, 2012 5:16 PM

As same as in a normal windows device.


Control + C [Copy]

Control + V [Paste]

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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

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.

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.

how do i copy and paste with the macbook pro?

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