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Apple Macintosh PowerBook 145 User Manual

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Now you’ll rearrange some text.

9. Move the I-beam pointer to the immediate left of the

word “they” (after “conscience,”).

10. Drag horizontally, selecting the word “they”, and then

release the trackball button.

11. With “they” selected, choose Cut from the Edit menu.

Choosing Cut removes the selected material from the
document and stores it in a temporary file called the
Clipboard.

12. Move the I-beam pointer to the immediate left of the

word “Endowed”.

13. Click to place the insertion point.

14. Choose Paste from the Edit menu.

When you choose Paste, your computer takes whatever’s in
the Clipboard and puts it into the document at the location of
the insertion point.

60 Chapter 3: Creating and Changing a Document