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In this module, we'll look at some cut and paste options that you have and again, this module at first glance may seem pretty elementary, but before you skip over this one, just know that this has a couple of purposes. One is it introduces you to some techniques that will hopefully save you a lot of time and headache and effort when you are manipulating text and cutting and pasting text and two, most of your day-to-day operation of the program is going to use a lot of these techniques that you see in the introductory modules. You'll certainly learn a lot of things that will help you unlock the potential and power of these applications, but again, most of your day-to-day operation and manipulation of text is going to be using cut and paste operations similar to what you see here. So let's start with a triple click to select this paragraph of text and then I'm going to go to the edit menu and simply copy that text. Now, I'm going to take it again that most of you understand that you can then set an insertion point with a click and then make a paste, which I just did using the keyboard shortcut of Command-V and you'll learn these keyboard shortcuts probably immediately if you haven't already. So we've just made our first cut and paste and notice that the formatting was also cut and pasted. The fact that the text is blue, it's bigger, it's bold, all of that was part of the paste operation. Now, I can change that immediately with this little button right here, these paste options. So do I want to keep the source or match the destination formatting or I can go right back to that smart cut and paste button and keep the text only. So maybe that's what I want to achieve and I can always change my mind. The only exception is that when I start to go and click around now, now I don't have the ability to go back and hover around that text and get access to that button or do I? Look, it's right there. So even though it looks like oh, all is lost, I'll have to redo that operation, just go near where you think that button should be. It should be just to the lower right-hand corner of the text you just worked with and you can go back and change your mind almost at will. What if you start typing new text. Is it there then? That's when it finally goes away. So as long as you don't start adding new text to the document, you can do anything you want. You can scroll around, change pages. If you go back to that text and you haven't inserted anything new, you'll have the ability, thanks to smart cut and paste, to change your mind. Now, another place that this is helpful is when you are making a cut and paste operation into a bulleted list because smart cut and paste knows to match the formatting and not have you insert something that you're then going to have to turn into a bullet-formatted part of the list. And I'll show you what that means by doing this. That, by the way, that dragging and dropping of text is a cut and paste operation, which again, I just did right there. If I hit Command-Z to undo this, I can also take a whole paragraph like this, one, two, three clicks to select and if I do a whole paragraph and I cut and paste that, notice that it takes the carriage return as well, the return button on your keyboard and actually makes a new line. So because that didn't have a return, it didn't make a new bullet list out of it, a third bullet. If I select the whole paragraph and drag it in, I do have the ability or the default ability to make that a new line in the bulleted list. Now, once again, that, some of the smart cut and paste behavior and that is also configurable. Go again to your preferences, Word Preferences and you can see with the Edit button again that you have, yes, I'm going to use smart cut and paste, that the button, the paste option button is going to show and that I can configure alternate settings, additional settings for my smart cut and paste using this dialog box right here. And in fact, the reason why that paragraph that I pasted into a bulleted list was merged is because that button is configured. So those are the options. That's an introduction to smart cut and paste and that is the paste options button that is a part of all of that behavior. So again, more than meets the eye when it comes to simply cutting and pasting text.