Cut/Copy/Paste and the Clipboard
The “clipboard” is a concept familiar to most people
who have used modern word processors. It is a piece of your computers
memory which is set aside as a temporary storage space. Text can be
“Cut” or “Copied” from your document into
the clipboard. Now move to another part of the document or to
another application entirely, and “Paste” this text at the new
location.
The most common use for the clipboard is to move or copy text
which has already entered into one part of the document to another
part of the same document or to another document entirely.
This concept is probably best described with an example.
To do this, we begin with a test sentence
Using the mouse or keyboard, select the phrase “big,
red”.
Now select Edit->Copy from
the menubar.
This has moved a copy of the selected text to the
clipboard.
Now place the mouse cursor between “lazy” and
“dog” and click once.
Now select Edit->Paste
from the menubar.
The resulting sentence is:
The clipboard is not limited to text.
The clipboard can contain tables, pictures, spreadsheets or any other type of information.
The Copy command can be invoked 4 ways:
By selecting Edit->Copy from
the menubar
By clicking 
on the toolbar.
Using the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+C or the alternate keyboard shortcut:
Ctrl+Insert
After the text is selected, click once with the правая кнопка мыши and hold the button down.
A small submenu will appear. Simply select Copy
The Copy command moves a copy of the selected data
to the clipboard. The original data is
unaffected.
The Cut command can be invoked 4 ways:
By selecting Edit->Cut from
the menubar
By clicking 
on the toolbar.
After the text is selected, click once with the правая кнопка мыши and hold the button down.
A small submenu will appear. Simply select Cut
Using the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+X or the alternate keyboard shortcut:
Shift+Delete
The Cut command moves a copy of the selected data
to the clipboard. The selected data is then deleted from the
document.
The Paste command can be invoked 4 ways:
By selecting Edit->Paste
from the menubar
By clicking 
on the toolbar.
Place the cursor where the contents of the clipboard
should be inserted. Click once with the правая кнопка мыши and hold the button down. A small
submenu will appear. Simply select Paste
Using the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+V or the alternate keyboard shortcut:
Shift+Insert
The Paste command inserts a copy of all the data in
the clipboard at the current position of the cursor. The clipboard is
unaffected. (So another paste command will produce yet another copy of
the data in the document.)
Замечание
If no text in the document is currently highlighted, the
Paste command inserts
the data at the current position of the cursor.
If there is selected text when the
Paste command is executed, the selected text
is replaced with the contents of the
clipboard.
Подсказка
The clipboard is not limited to the bounds of the current document. If
text is copied (or cut) from a document, this text can be pasted
into another open document, or another KDE application entirely.
