Cut, Copy and Paste

1. Make sure that the text that you want to copy is on the screen. You don’t need any fancy app to perform this task, so if it’s text from a website you need to have the web page open on your Android device.
2. Press and hold your finger over the word where you want to start copying text from
3. There will be a highlighted area display exactly what is set to but copied, you can drag either end of this to either lengthen or shorten it.
4. Once you have the correct area, simply press and hold the screen over the highlighted text and a new box that give you the option to Copy will appear. When you see this box press it and your text will be copied to the clipboard.
5. Now that the text is copied to the clipboard you can exit the app you are in and open the app that you want to paste the text into. From here simply press and hold in any valid text box and a new Paste option will appear.
6. Hit paste. That’s it you’re done.

Exercise: Using a browser go to an informative website such as http://www.bbc.co.uk .  Find an article that you want to copy.  Copy the relevant section.  Open Word and paste the article into it.