Insert and Add Text

Step1. Click the location where you want to insert text or you can use keyboard arrows to locate the place where you would like to insert the text.

Step2. Start typing your text you want to insert. Word inserts the text to the left of the insertion point, moving existing text to the right.

Insert and Replace Text

Step1. Right-click the status bar and select Overtype option from the displayed menu.

When you select over type option, status bar will show insert mode as shown below:

Step2. Click on the Insert text available at the status bar and it will switch to Overtype mode as shown below:

Step3. Now click the location where you want to insert text or you can use keyboard arrows to locate the place where you would like to insert the text.

Step4. Start typing your text you want to insert. Word would replace the existing text with the newly typed text without moving position of the exiting test.

Select Text

Note that only one part of the document can be in selected state. If you have one portion of the document in selected state and as soon as you try to select any other part of the document, previous part will automatically be de-selected.

Using the Selection Bar

The black shaded area in the following screen shot is called selection bar. When you bring your cursor in this area, it turns into a rightward-pointing arrow.

You can use selection bar to select various components of a document as described in the following table:

Delete Text

Using Backspace & Delete Keys

The most basic deletion technique is to delete characters one at a time by pressing either backspace or delete keys. Following table describes how you can delete single character or whole word by using either of these two keys:

Using Selection Method

You have learnt how to select various parts of a word document. You can make use of that learning to delete those selected parts as described in the following table:

Copy & Paste Operation

Step1. Select a portion of the text using any of the text selection methods.

Step2. At second step, you have various options available to copy the selected text in clipboard. Just use any one of them which you like most:

• Using Mouse Right Click: If right click on the selected text, it will display copy option, just click this option to copy the selected content in clipboard.
• Using Ribbon Copy Button: After selecting a text, you can use copy button available at the ribbon to copy the selected content in clipboard.
• Using Ctrl + c Keys: After selecting a text, just press Ctrl + c keys to copy the selected content in clipboard.

Step3. Finally click at the place where you want to copy selected text and use either of these two simple options:

·        Using Ribbon Paste Button: Just click paste button available at the ribbon to paste the copied content at the desired location.

·        Using Ctrl + v Keys: This is simplest way of pasting the content. Just press Ctrl + v keys to paste the content at the new location.

Cut & Paste Operation

Cut operation will cut the content from its original place and move the content from its original location to a new desired location. Following is the procedure to move the content in word:

Step1. Select a portion of the text using any of the text selection methods.

Step2. At second step, you have various options available to cut the selected text and put it in clipboard. Just use any one of them which you like most:

• Using Mouse Right Click: If right click on the selected text, it will display cut option, just click this option to cut the selected content and keep it in clipboard.
• Using Ribbon Cut Button: After selecting a text, you can use cut button available at the ribbon to cut the selected content and keep it in clipboard.
• Using Ctrl + x Keys: After selecting a text, just press Ctrl + x keys to cut the selected content and keep it in clipboard.

Step3. Finally click at the place where you want to move the selected text and use either of these two simple options:

• Using Ribbon Paste Button: Just click paste button available at the ribbon to paste the content at the new location.
• Using Ctrl + v Keys: This is simplest way of pasting the content. Just press Ctrl + v keys to paste the content at the new location.

Copy, Cut & Paste in different documents:

You can use the same procedure what we have discussed above to copy and paste or cut and paste content form one document to another document. Procedure is very simple, just copy or cut the desired content from one document and go into another document where you want to paste the content and use mentioned step to paste the content.

You can use Alt + Tab keys to switch through the different documents and select the desired destination document.