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Questions tagged [cut-and-paste]

"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 automatically do that for me?
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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, can I still recover them?
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Recommendations for utility to paste plain text?

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, so that paste will be in pure text (stripping…
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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 formatting rule like…
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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 way to use the cut and paste features besides the…
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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 instead of inside. Say I have a block of code…
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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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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 to go away. When I just select the other lines…
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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. I tried Edit | paste and Command-V and…
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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 - Keep Source Formatting (K) - Match Destination…
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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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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 the behavior of text documents in Calc? All my tables…
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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 behaviour: Use the "free select tool" from the…
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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 seems like vim's yank is like copy and paste: I…
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