April 16, 2002

Quick Copy/Paste on Non-Edit Fields

Many times in Web browsing or editing, you may encounter a number or phrase that you would like to copy, but the field cannot be edited so you cannot click the copy button. You may still be able to highlight the field. Try highlighting the field by left-clicking the mouse, and drag it over the non-editable data. Release the mouse and the data should be highlighted. Then, while holding the Control (Ctrl) button, press the letter C (CTRL-C) to copy.

Then go to the document or Web page onto which you want to paste, place your mouse over where you want to paste the image and single click so that Windows places the cursor there. Then, while holding the Control (Ctrl) button, press the letter V (CTRL-V) to paste.

Note: it does not matter whether the "c" and "v" are upper case or lower case.