How to Copy and Paste in Google Docs?

January 31, 2022

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In this tutorial, let’s make use of copy and paste functions in Google Docs. We recommend you study this manual carefully and start practicing.

Checklist of crucial points we aim to highlight here:

Copy and Paste via Google Docs Menu
Other Features

Copy and paste functions in Google Docs are basically no different from those in Mac OS and Windows, except that here it is made through Google Docs own context menu, nothing complicated, though. And now we’re going to take advantage of these commands.

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Copy and Paste via Google Docs Menu

As usual, you highlight the part of the text that you want to copy. Then we put the cursor over the highlighted data, right mouse click on it to bring up a context menu. Now look for the "Copy" item at the top and press it. This is your basic copy function

NB! Or you do it with a keyboard shortcut. So, once again: select the text you want to copy, but this time, press Ctrl + C on a keyboard for Windows or Cmd + C for Mac.

Now the copied data is in the clipboard of the computer, and you can paste it. For that, place the insertion point to where you want to insert your data, right mouse click for a context menu, and the line with the “Paste” item should be right below the “Copy”. And we click on it

For example, here’s our inserted data

NB! As well as for the “Copy” function, we have a shortcut for the “Paste” one, which is Ctrl + V for Windows and Cmd + V for Mac.

Other Features

And you can also cut the data by highlighting it, bringing up a context menu, and clicking on the “Cut” item. Or use the shortcut (Ctrl + X for Windows or Cmd + X for Mac)

NB! This command will delete the selected data, but at the same time, it will save it to a clipboard of the computer, so that you can paste it later.

NB! Frequently, when you copy and paste the data into Google Docs or move it over multiple documents, you might face the situation that the function also inserts the original formatting while you may need the content to take the formatting of your current document.

To do that, put the insertion point to where you want the data to appear, bring up a context menu with the right mouse click, and here we locate and press “Paste without formatting”

NB! Or do it with a shortcut, which is Ctrl + Shift + V for Windows or Cmd + Shift + V for Mac.

Regardless of the original data formatting, it will take the current form of your document. In our sample, we customized one paragraph a little (bold and italic text). And after the application of “Paste without formatting”, the inserted text has the current format on the document. And the text format is not inherited from the copied paragraph

We hope this tutorial will help you learn how to copy and paste in Google Docs. Good luck!

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How to Copy and Paste in Google Docs?

Copy and Paste via Google Docs Menu

Other Features

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