Daniel Kies Department of English College of DuPage
Composition English 1101		Contact Form

Cut and Paste

Lab 1

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

Some Helpful Hints about Using a Word Processor to Prepare our 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.		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 one computer application (such as your browser) into another computer application (such as your word processor), you can use the editing features of both programs. Start both your word processor and you browser. In your 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 your browser. Now click on the word Copy. Use the ALT + TAB key combination to toggle to your word processor. (This command may be different for Macintosh users.) In your 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. 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 your browser into your word processor, you can use the edit and paste features of both programs.

• Start your browser.
• In your browser, click on the photo you wish to save with the right mouse button.
• In the dialogue box that appears, choose Save Image or Save Picture As and in the dialogue box that will next appear, choose the location on your computer that you wish to use. Click OK.
• Start your word processor.
• In your word processor, position the cursor at the point where you would like to insert the picture.
• Now from the Insert option on the Menu bar, choose the Picture option.
• When the Insert > Picture option opens, select the From File ... option.
• Find the image you saved, and then click once on the name of the picture that you saved, and click OK.

3. You can move the picture around inside of most word processing documents by using the "double click + hold" mouse moves 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 poem below into the Contact Form. (This link will open a new browser window.) Then send the poem to me by pressing the Send Message button on the contact form page. (It's a short poem, but the procedure is the same even for much longer stretches of text.)

              READY TO KILL

              Carl Sandburg
            from Chicago Poems

TEN minutes now I have been looking at this.
I have gone by here before and wondered about it.
This is a bronze memorial of a famous general
Riding horseback with a flag and a sword and a revolver
     on him.
I want to smash the whole thing into a pile of junk to be
     hauled away to the scrap yard.
I put it straight to you,
After the farmer, the miner, the shop man, the factory
     hand, the fireman and the teamster,
Have all been remembered with bronze memorials,
Shaping them on the job of getting all of us
Something to eat and something to wear,
When they stack a few silhouettes
          Against the sky
          Here in the park,
And show the real huskies that are doing the work of
     the world, and feeding people instead of butchering them,
Then maybe I will stand here
And look easy at this general of the army holding a flag
     in the air,
And riding like hell on horseback
Ready to kill anybody that gets in his way,
Ready to run the red blood and slush the bowels of men
     all over the sweet new grass of the prairie.

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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 poem above into a word processing document and then to visit the Carl Sandburg - Chicago Poems web site. 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 as *****LAB.DOC, where the asterisks [*] represent the first five letters of your last name, and then send a copy of the document for me to see as an email attachment.

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