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COMMAND. ACTION. Ctrl/⌘ + C. Select/highlight the text you want to copy, and then press this key combo. Ctrl/⌘ + F. Opens a search box to find a specific word, phrase, or figure on the page
Larry Tesler created the concept of cut, copy, paste, and undo for human-computer interaction while working at Xerox PARC to control text editing.During the development of the Macintosh it was decided that the cut, paste, copy and undo would be used frequently and assigned them to the ⌘-Z (Undo), ⌘-X (Cut), ⌘-C (Copy), and ⌘-V (Paste).
Applications communicate through the clipboard by providing either serialized representations of an object, or a promise (for larger objects). [6] In some circumstances, the transfer of certain common data formats may be achieved opaquely through the use of an abstract factory; for example, Mac OS X uses a class called NSImage to provide access to image data stored on the clipboard, though the ...
On most systems only one clipboard location exists, hence another cut or copy operation overwrites the previously stored information. Many UNIX text-editors provide multiple clipboard entries, as do some Macintosh programs such as Clipboard Master, [6] and Windows clipboard-manager programs such as the one in Microsoft Office.
In many GUI environments, including Microsoft Windows and most desktop environments based on the X Window System, and in applications such as word processing software running in those environments, control-V can be used to paste text or other content (if supported) from the clipboard at the current cursor position.
System 7 added the ability to open a document in an application by dropping the document icon onto the application's icon. Apple added "Macintosh Drag and Drop" to System 7.5, extending "click and drag" to common clipboard operations like copying or moving textual content within a document. Content could also be dragged into the filesystem to ...
Thankfully, I came across TextSniper — a Mac app that lets you extract text from non-selectable sources such as YouTube videos, PDFs, photos, or presentations. Getting text out of a document or ...
Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [11] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [12] [13] [14] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989 ...