. Moving Data Between Documents You can't paste a picture into your Web browser, and you can't paste MIDI music information into your word processor. | . Moving Data Between Documents You can t paste a picture into your Web browser and you can t paste MIDI music information into your word processor. But you can put graphics into your word processor paste movies into your database insert text into Graphic Converter and combine a surprising variety of seemingly dissimilar kinds of data. . Cut Copy and Paste The original copy-and-paste procedure of 1984 putting a graphic into a word processor has come a long way. Most experienced Mac users have learned to trigger the Cut Copy and Paste commands from the keyboard quickly and without even thinking. Here s how the process works 1. Highlight some material in a document. Drag through some text in a word processor for example or highlight graphics music movie database or spreadsheet information depending on the program you re using. 2. Use the Edit Cut or Edit Copy command. Or press the keyboard shortcuts -X for Cut think of the X as a pair of scissors or -C for Copy . The Macintosh memorizes the highlighted material socking it away on an invisible storage pad called the Clipboard. If you chose Copy nothing visible happens. If you chose Cut the highlighted material disappears from the original document. At this point most Mac fans take it on faith that the Cut or Copy command actually worked. But if you re in doubt switch to the Finder by clicking its Dock icon for example and then choose Edit Show Clipboard. The Clipboard window appears showing whatever you re copied. 3. Click to indicate where you want the material to reappear. This may entail switching to a different program a different document or simply a different place in the same document. 4. Choose the Edit Paste command -V . The copy of the material you had originally highlighted now appears at your insertion point if you re pasting into a program that can accept that kind of information. You won t have much luck pasting say a movie clip into Quicken. The most recently cut or copied material remains on .
