Daniel Kies Department of English College of DuPage
Composition 2 English 1102		Contact Form

Copy and Paste

Lab 1

The goal of this lab is to help you learn to move text and images from a web browser into a word processing document using the Copy and Paste functions of both programs.

Some Hints for Using Your Word Processor and Browser to Prepare Reports

There are several features of most word processors that can help you prepare any report more easily. In this lab, we will learn to do "Copy and Paste" and "Save and Insert" operations. We will copy and paste a section of a document both into a web page contact form and into a word processing document. We will also learn to save and insert a picture from a web page into a word processing document. A note to my students from English 1101 (Composition 1) My continuing students need not do Lab 1 since it is essentially the same as the lab you did in English 1101. You will automatically receive full credit for that lab in this course.		Current work:   Days remaining this term: Notes: Add Note |  Log in? | Privacy | Change Name & Email Mail this page to a friend
To insert quoted text from a browser into a word processor, you can use the editing features of both programs. Start both the word processor and the browser. In the browser, highlight the text you wish to quote by placing the mouse arrow at the beginning of the text you want. Press the left mouse button and move the mouse's arrow to highlight the text you want. Release the mouse's button when you have the text highlighted. Click next on the word Edit on the menu bar of the browser. Now click on the word Copy. Use the ALT + TAB key combination to toggle to the word processor. In the word processor, place the cursor at the position you want to insert the quote into your document. Click once. Next, click on the word Edit on the menu bar. Click on the word Paste and the quoted text will appear at the position you chose. Remember to add a footnote to give a proper citation to the source of the quote. For example, see the animation below in Figure 1.

Figure 1: An illustration of copy and paste between documents or applications. Graphic created by Cathy Rathke, used by permission.

2. To insert a picture from the browser into the word processor, you can use the editing and insertion features of both programs.

• Start both the word processor and the browser.
• In the browser, click on the photo you wish to save with the right mouse button.
• In the editing box that appears, choose "Save Image As" and in the Save As dialog box that will next appear, choose the A drive and OK. Be sure that you have a disk in the A drive.
• Use the ALT + TAB key combination to toggle to the word processor.
• In the word processor, position the cursor at the point where you would like to insert the picture.
• Now click on the word Insert on the Menu bar.
• Then click on the word Picture.
• When the Insert Picture dialog box opens, select the A drive.
• Click once on the name of the picture that you saved, and click on OK.

3. You can move the picture around inside of your word processing document by clicking on the picture and then dragging it to its new location.

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Having read the theory, you are now ready to put it into practice. First, I want you to highlight, copy, and paste the opening two paragraphs of 1984 below into both a word processing document and the Contact Form. (This link will open a new browser window.). It's a short passage, but the procedure is the same even for much longer stretches of text.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were 
striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into 
his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped 
quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, 
though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty  
dust from entering along with him. 

The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At 
one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor 
display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply 
an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a 
man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and 
ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. 
It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times 
it was seldom working, and at present the electric  
current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part  
of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The 
flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was 
thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right 
ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On 
lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from  
the each landing, opposite the wall. It was one of those  
pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you  
about when you move. Big Brother Is Watching You, 
the caption beneath it ran.

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!   Note 1: Don't bother trying to paste a picture into the Contact form. The Contact form can not handle graphics in the area meant for text. Note 2: Close the document in the word processor before trying to attach it to an email. Most word processors "lock" open documents, making them unavailable to other applications until the document is closed.

Second, I want you to highlight, copy, and paste the paragraphs into a word processing document and then to go to our Introductory Notes for 1984. Find any graphic or picture that you like. Next, using the procedure above, I want you to save and insert the graphic into the same word processing document.

When you have finished, you should save your document and email a copy of the document to me. (Remember our naming conventions? You can read them again in our syllabus.)

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