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"Cut and paste" are two operations that specify the locations objects (files, text, image data, etc.) are to be moved from and placed into. The term derives from literal cutting and pasting (gluing) pieces of paper.

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Shortcut in Word or Excel for Special Paste?

If I want to paste without any formatting, I have to go to the "Paste" button on the ribbon and click "Paste Special" and then "unformatted text". Is there a shortcut like Ctrl+V that'll ...
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Cancelled cut and paste, what happens?

I cut and paste an 80GB worth of files and folders. At about 80% I cancelled it. Are some of the files deleted and gone forever? Does the files that were successfully transferred gets deleted? If yes, ...
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Recommendations for utility to paste plain text? [closed]

In order to paste unformatted text, I need to paste into notepad, then cut, then paste in my original target app. I came here looking for a way to avoid this and found How do I cut-and-paste an email,...
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GNU Screen: Better way to cut and paste?

I've been using GNU Screen for close to 3 years and find it immensely useful. For such a robust and flexible program I find its cut and paste functionality a little basic. Has anyone found a better ...
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Preserve conditional formatting on cut-paste

I have some data from different sources that I'm trying to line up to get a good handle on which fields they have in common and which they don't. To make it easier to see rows, I set up a conditional ...
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Excel 2013: “The picture is too large and will be truncated.”

This error message started popping up in Excel as soon as I hit cut or copy. I don't know when it started or why and it happens every time. Running Windows 7, with Office 2013 Pro.
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Is there a way to fix multi-line indenting in Sublime Text 3 so that it adds the indenting characters for the first line inside the selection?

When I select several lines in Sublime Text 3 and indent them as a block (using either Tab or Ctrl + ]), it adds the new whitespace characters at the beginning of the first line outside the selection ...
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Unable to "cut" blocks of text from Microsoft Word sometimes

Sometimes doing a cut operation does not have any effect both visually and at the clipboard level. The block of text just stays there. If there are multiple lines, it is usually one line that refuses ...
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How to cut/paste file path in Mac os file open dialog?

Pressing CMD-SHIFT-G opens a "Go to the folder" dialog. But it is not possible to paste the path into the text area. I have verified the path is in the clipboard - it pastes properly in other apps. ...
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Missing Paste (P) option in Excel 2016

I'm copying some data from a webpage which is tabulated. When I click Ctrl+C in Excel 2010 and Ctrl+V to paste, it pastes correctly. However, in Excel 2016, the Paste (P) option is not there. Only - ...
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Copy and paste does not work with free-selection tool in GIMP

I have started using GIMP 2.10.8 on Linux and want to cut an arbitrary piece of an image, copy, and paste it. All image editing programs support this except GIMP - why? Step-by-step reproduction of ...
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Is there any way to do an emacs-like yank in vim?

In emacs, yanking works something like this: if you delete something, it can be yanked back into another position. In other words, emacs's yank is sort of like cut and paste. On the other hand, it ...
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Copying a region of Calc cells into a Writer document as a table

I need to take a region of spreadsheet cells and paste them into a Writer document as a table. How do I do this?
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How to cut-and-paste - using right click - on all Google Docs?

In Google Docs, some documents would allow cut-and-paste using right click and choosing from a menu, while other documents insist that one use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Shift-V, et al. Is there a way to force a ...
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Do .frm files represent the entirety of a MySQL database?

So let's say I copy /var/lib/mysql and save it somewhere else, then uninstall/reinstall MySQL and put the original /var/lib/mysql back where it was. Will I have all of my databases without any trouble?...
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Libreoffice Calc: Copy&Paste like in a text document

In a text document, when you paste something from the clipboard, the new text is inserted into the document. In a table document, when you paste, the existing cells are overwritten. How can I get ...
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How to map Ctrl+Insert to Copy in Konsole at fedora 22?

original header: How to map Ctrl+Insert to Copy at fedora 22? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've recently ...
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Copy data from a scrolling list (Windows)

Is there a way to capture data from a scroll list in Windows, so that you can paste it into a text file? I know there are screen capture programs that can capture a scrollable application, but I ...
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IE9 Beta and RC - Cannot select and then cut and paste text from a website

This has been driving me nuts. I was using the IE9 beta on Vista 64 bit and for the life of me I could not select text from a website to copy and paste. Instead if the "I" I would get the grabby ...
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Does the file still exists on hard drive after it was cut and pasted into external drive?

after cut and paste a word file from pc to usb, does the file still exists on hard disk (until it is overwritten)? How is this differ from shift+delete?
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Explorer forgetting how to cut and paste files

My Windows XP (SP3) machine (at work) occasionally "forgets" how to cut-and-paste files in Explorer - if I cut or copy a file then go to paste it elsewhere, the "paste" and "paste shortcut" menu items ...
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How to cut and paste, but if file exists then proceed with delete

When we cut and paste, it appears that it is essentially a short cut for move, and if the move is successful, delete the original If the file already exists in the destination location, Windows pops ...
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Notepad++ paste large amount of text over other text at end of line

I need to paste a large amount of text (so no ctrl+f > replace possible) over another text, and I need it to be ONTOP of the other text, at the end of the line. Example: Textfile 1: |apple= |banana=...
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VMware Workstation pro 12.5.9 Copy and paste not working

Im having problems getting the copy and paste functionality working using VMware Workstation pro 12.5.9. The host and guest are both Win 10 x64. VMtools are installed too. Ive tried the following but ...
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VMPlayer cut-n-paste issue after VmTools

Using VMPlayer 4.06 on Ubuntu 14.04 on Win7. I just installed the open-vm-tools-dkms (aptget) and the patches . This was done to solve the host/VM file sharing problem. Now a huge new problem has got ...
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What are the mouse/keyboard sequences for cut-and-paste on Ubuntu VirtualBox?

I have a non-graphical Ubuntu installed inside VirtualBox under Windows. I've installed VBoxGuestAdditions (and enabled bidirectional Drag'n'Drop - for the hell of it). However, none of the following ...
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How do I use multiple copy & paste of non-contiguous text?

I often need to select multiple lines of text and save them as a note in Firefox using some of the note taking add ons, such as Scrapbook, Evernote or Memonic. The problem is that it doesn't work with ...
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Cygwin copy to Clipboard when contacted to a server

When I want to copy some text/files to clipboard using Cygwin I use echo filename | clip Which works great. When I want to do the same thing after contacting to a (SSH) server, I get an error ...
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Cut/paste into emacs not working quite right.

In Emacs, when I have text selected and use the keyboard or left-mouse-button Emacs de-selects my text, and I suspect that is when it copies it into the paste buffer. This prevents me from pasting ...
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Paste link into Table disallowed?

I am trying to use the Copy / Paste Link (ALT+ESL), but it does not appear to be an option when pasting into a Table. Is this a known limitation of Excel (using 2013)? If so, is there a better work ...
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XP RDP to Windows 7 Can't Paste

I'm on Windows XP. I'm RDPing to a Windows 7 machine. I can cut and copy (ctrl-X or edit menu or right-click menu in various applications), but pasting just pastes nothing. (Regardless of if I paste ...
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Cut and paste function changes formulas in spreadsheet

I'm trying to sum the total number of hours within a set of rows. I've created formulas that calculate the total number of hours based on a weighted probability. At times, totals within cells will ...
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Windows 7 Crashes When Pasting a File

I have a Windows 7 (Professional, x64) machine. It started crashing when pasting a file (for both copy and cut operations). The entire OS gets crashed (not just the explorer.exe), even on the Safe ...
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Unable to Move/Copy files - Cannot find the specified file

Got this really odd issue whereby I'm unable to copy/move any .tif files from multiple locations on two file servers to a new server. Whenever the copy reaches a .tif file it fails with the error "...
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How to move folder and its contents to the parent folder?

Is there a quick GUI way (without command line) to move a folder and all of its contents to the parent folder? eg: folder 1 folder 2 folder 3 file 1 file 2 Can I move folder 3, ...
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Cutting and Pasting in Excel Macro

I have approximately 9,000 columns (goes to column MGN) which have 14 rows of data points. I need to get the data in a single column with the format Column B below A, C below B, etc. Is there any ...
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how check all of my file copy correctly by batch file?

I have a batch file that copy all the files from src place to dest place. I used xcopy command. Now I want to make sure all of my file copy correctly and delete all the files in src folder, do you ...
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cannot paste words with pictures in ms word 2010

Is there any option that will correct this? I'm pasting my assignment with some pictures in it in ms word 2010 from a webpage but it doesn't seem to be showing the picture that is copied along with ...
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Cut and paste does not work

As above, suddenly I cannot cut/copy-paste anymore in my windows XP host. I work on a VDI and I get the error message "Cannot empty the clipboard" on trying to cut/copy and paste. What could be the ...
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When I cut-paste from a terminal to Jira, each line is followed by a blank line. How can I avoid these blank lines?

When I cut-paste from a terminal to Jira, each line is followed by a blank line. How can I avoid these blank lines appearing when pasting? For instance, these are the lines in the terminal: List on ...
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copy-paste issue when using SSMS over GoToMyPC

I'm hoping someone here has run into this issue and knows if there's a fix for it. When using GoToMyPC, I'm unable to copy text from the editor in SSMS (v14) on my remote desktop and paste it into the ...
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Windows 10: how to get a list of ALL programs that are monitoring the keyboard?

tl;dr: I need a program/script/code to give me a list of all currently running software on Win10 that monitors/affects the clipboard. I've had a super annoying issue on Windows 10 for at least a year ...
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Windows 10 cut and paste: do not copy already existing files to the destination, but still removing them in original folder

Due to some connection issues, some of my files from my phone are pasted to my computer but they were not removed from the original folder. I would like to repeat the cut/paste but without recopying ...
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Excel 2007 Cut and paste formula or value without changing cell formatting - paste options greyed out

I just need to cut cell contents leaving the source cell format unchanged, and paste matching destination cell formatting... I think not an uncommon ask? I have searched but Google search filter ...
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How to select multiple columns in excel for cut and paste

As shown in the following screenshot I have clicked across the headers of three columns: But - as you might have also noticed - the first row entry on the third column seems to also in some fashion ...
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Grab windows console output into a file (not redirection, no screen shots)

(Not redirection) I want to grab and save ALL the windows cmd console (win7) text into a file, without using the mouse. I need the text for doing command completion, instead of copy/pasting parts of ...
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Cut and paste files preserving directory structure in windows 7

I am having a directory having three levels of sub-directories in windows 7. I need to cut files from the last level sub-directories and paste them into a new parent directory, while preserving the ...
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Cut-paste produces squares from a PDF created with GNU Ghostscript

A PDF from the net looks fine in Chrome or PDF reader/editor, viz: However, if I try to copy-paste that page, either to MS word or a text editor, this is what I get: I tried the suggestions of PDF ...
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How can I get Libre Office to stop storing my changes?

Apparently Libre Office is keeping old copies of my document in memory, because after systematically cutting a page at a time from a document (and pasting it into another one), the source document ...
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Adobe Flash CS3 cut and paste movieclip within library

I have a scene named 1.fla. It contains a MovieClip named "MyClip". I want to cut and paste it into another scene named 2.fla. If I use standard operation Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, it copies MyClip, but in "...
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