Task 8: Moving Text

Select the text you want to move.

Click Edit , and then click the Cut command. Windows deletes the data from the document and places it in the Clipboard.

Click in the document where you want to place the text.

INTRODUCTION

Just as you can copy text, you can move text from one location in a document to another location in the same document. You can also move text from one document to another. Moving text is similar to copying text, except that when you move something it is deleted from its original location.

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Move to Another Application

To move cut or copied data from WordPad to another application, simply switch to the desired application, click the spot where you want the data to be placed, open the Edit menu, and select Paste .

Click Edit and then select the Paste command.

The text is pasted into the new location.

Select the text you want to change.

To use a different font, click the Font drop-down arrow and click the font you want.

To use a different font size, select the text you want to change, click the Font Size drop-down arrow, and click the size you want to use.

INTRODUCTION

You can easily make simple changes to the appearance of the text. For example, you can change the font or font size, and you can make text bold, italic, or underlined . This task touches on just a few of the formatting changes you can make. Experiment to try out some of the other available formatting features.

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Undoing a Change

To undo a change, click the Undo button on the toolbar. The Undo button is the one with a curved arrow pointing to the left.

To make text bold, italic, or underlined, select the text, and then click the appropriate button in the format bar.

To change the font color , select the text you want to change, and then click the Font Color button. Select the color you want from the drop-down list that appears.

Change the alignment of a paragraph by selecting it and clicking any of the Alignment buttons on the toolbar.

Click Start, All Programs, Accessories , and then choose Notepad .

To open a file in Notepad, click File , and then choose Open .

An Open dialog box appears. Navigate to the folder containing the file you want to open.

INTRODUCTION

The most common type of simple file is a text file, which has the extension .txt. They include instructions on how to install a program, beta notes, and other information. Some configuration files are also text files. To edit and work with this type of file, you can use Notepad, a simple text editor provided with Windows XP.

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NotePad Versus WordPad

NotePad is similar to WordPad, in that both are text-editing programs. WordPad, however, supports more formatting options and other features whereas NotePad does not.

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Navigate the Open Dialog Box

For help navigating the standard Windows Open dialog, refer to Task 6, "Opening a Document," in Part 2, "Working with Programs."

When you find the file you want to read, double-click its entry in the Open dialog box.

Review the file.

To exit Notepad, click the Close button.