There's also the Mac clipboard, though you'll need a separate app if you want to look back through your clipboard history. Reading time 3 minutes Get ready for the two keyboard shortcuts you’ll get ...

Copy and paste may be the most important computing technology of the past 30 years. That may sound odd, but just think how much you rely on it. Most of us use the Copy and Paste commands multiple ...

A basic, but important, concept to understand when using a computer is cut, copy and paste. These actions will allow you to easily copy or move data between one application and another or copy and ...

After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste. “When I make a copy-paste error, unlike ...

It’s strange to imagine where we’d be if we didn’t have Larry Tesler’s cut, copy, and paste commands. They’re so rudimentary to modern computer functions, and yet there was a time they didn’t exist.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Larry Tesler, the computer scientist best ...

Learning when and how to use the cut, copy and paste commands in your word processor dramatically improves your productivity. Instead of retyping a sentence you want moved, you can cut and paste it to ...

Q: Why do the "Cut," "Copy" and "Paste" commands under the Edit menu inside Google Docs not work in my browser? A: It can seem kind of crazy when you look at it: Google first put menu items into its ...