Cut and Paste
Try it now - Cut text from the screen and Paste into a text area in your Word Processing program.
- Highlight text then click the right mouse button - select copy.
- Move pointer to target location, click the right mouse button - select paste.
If it doesn’t work:
Netscape and Internet Explorer use Ctrl-C to copy the highlighted area, or the whole page, then Ctrl V to paste. AOL uses Ctrl-C, and then Ctrl-V to copy the highlight and Ctrl-V to paste instead of the right mouse button.
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Netiquette
Just as making your way around a new city requires that you learn a new set of rules, navigating the Internet dictates that you adhere to a certain unspoken code of conduct. This online set of rules -- called netiquette -- ensures that you are not misunderstood (and that you don't offend anyone) when communicating online.
Netiquette, Online Netiquette UNCENSORED! - Common Courtesies and Social Graces for Newbies and Lazy Netizens http://www.getnetiquette.com/courtesy1.html which covers common courtesy online, is a great place to start. New users will learn the basics, such as how not to shout at someone in an e-mail (don't use all caps), how not to annoy an entire chat room (don't hold your finger down on one key and continuously press enter, called scrolling) and how not to offend and enrage the e-mail masses (keep the Spam -- or unsolicited mass e-mail -- to a minimum). The I Will Follow website > http://www.iwillfollow.com/email.htm maintains a guide to E-mail Etiquette, which covers basic e-mail do's (be concise) and don'ts (repeat messages). The site also provides interesting facts about e-mail (it is predicted that long-distance phone bills will go down as e-mail becomes the favored means of communication), lists of emoticons (like ;) , for example) and lists of acronyms commonly used in e-mail.
To personalize your messages, you can use smileys — expressions you create from the characters on your keyboard. A few popular ones include:
| :-) Happy |
| :-e Disappointed |
| :-( Sad |
| :-< Mad |
| :-o Surprised |
| :-D Laughing |
| :-@ Screaming |
| ;-) Winking |
| :-I Indifferent |
If this is the first time you have ever seen or used smileys, you may not be able to understand or see the resemblance of the smiley and the definition. If your turn your head slightly to the left, you will be able to see the face emoticons. That’s all there is to it. Soon you will be using emoticons so much you’ll wonder how you ever got along without them!:)
TIP:
Keep your communications to the point. Some people
pay for Internet access by the hour. The longer it takes to read your
messages, the more it may cost them.
To keep messages short, there are some abbreviations you can use:
<BTW> means "by the way." A <G> enclosed in brackets indicates grinning. A good one to keep handy in case you're worried about offending someone is <IMHO> -- In My Humble Opinion. One of my favorites is <ROTFL>, which stands for Rolling on the Floor Laughing.
Netiquette isn't something you learn overnight; so don't let your fear of not knowing cyber-protocol hold you back. Keep in mind that FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) are very handy documents to read before asking questions. You should always consult them whenever they are available.
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