Command + Shift + C Copy the selection to Scrapbook. This does include entire paragraphs of text (or even entire documents), but even copying or cutting something as small as a single letter will replace anything that was previously stored. Edit and format content Copy the formatting from the selection. Once again, remember that the clipboard can only store one copied element at a time.

Sometimes the spaces before or after pasted text segments will need adjustment. When pasting text into the middle of a paragraph, always double-check the result.

• Text copied from web pages and spreadsheets will often have a much different format than the location you plan to paste them to (i.e., background colors, much larger or smaller font sizes, etcetera). + INSERT: Copy + INSERT: Paste + DELETE: Cut Of late, Ive taken to doing even my development work on the Mac. To use these keys as F1, F2, F3, or other standard function keys, combine them with the Fn key. The most basic and common examples are copy (Command-C) and paste (Command-V), but these keyboard shortcuts also allow you to do more complicated things like force-close an app (Option-Command-Esc.

Since keyboard commands are not always exactly the same between software, this is the easiest way to see if you can, for example, use Command (⌘) Shift (⇧) V or have to use Command (⌘) Option (⌥) Shift (⇧) V for 'Paste and Match Style.'

Use the toolbar menu to see what a given program's keyboard shortcuts are.

Depending on the software, you can use these methods to paste text into an image or an image into a text file, though. For example, you can't paste an image as text, or text as an image.

You cannot copy and paste disparate elements.

Macbook copy paste shortcut