Copying From the Internet to Microsoft Word

Text (Words)

• Select the text you want to copy
• Copy the text
• Click on your Word document
• Paste
• POSSIBLE PITFALL: If you paste and don’t see anything, it might be because the text you copied was white.
• HOW TO OVERCOME:
• Select this text in your word document
• Change the color.

Pictures (Graphics)

• Put your mouse on the picture you want to copy
• Right-click and choose “copy”
• Click on your Word document
• Paste
• POSSIBLE PITFALL: If text instead of your picture is pasted, you may still have text selected on your Internet page.
• HOW TO OVERCOME:
• Just click somewhere else on the page, and then try again.
• POSSIBLE PITFALL: Your picture will be treated like text. You will be able to move it within your text, but will note be able to move it around the page.
• HOW TO OVERCOME:
• Click on the picture; Click on the text wrapping icon in your picture toolbar. Choose any of the options.
• POSSIBLE PITFALL: Sometimes, the picture you want to copy cannot be copied with our “normal” techniques. (Macromedia Flash graphics are one example.)
• HOW TO OVERCOME:
• Do a Screen Copy: Move your mouse away from the place you want to copy.
• Hold down your <alt> key and, while continuing to hold it down, press your <print screen> key. (It is usually in the upper right of your keyboard, the third key from the right.)
• Click on your Word document
• Paste

Select Text with Your Mouse

ß Two Ways à

• Click at the beginning of the text you want to copy, hold down your mouse button, and drag it through the text you want to copy. Let go.

• Click at the beginning of the text you want to copy, hold down your <shift> key and then click your mouse at the end of the text you want to copy.

Copy

ß Two Ways à

• <ctrl> + “C”

• Right-click with mouse on the area you want to copy, and choose “copy”