How to Select All, Copy, Paste & Delete in Google Docs?

April 29, 2022

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to select all, copy, paste, delete in Google Docs. We recommend you study this manual carefully and start practicing!

Checklist of crucial points we aim to highlight here:

Select, Copy, Paste, and Delete All in Google Docs
Delete, Copy & Paste in Google Docs

This time we’ll take a look at some basic commands in Google Docs: “Select all”, “Copy”, “Paste”, and “Delete” everything.

It’s really simple here. For example, from time to time, you need to select all the data in the document, delete it, or copy it and then paste it into another document or elsewhere, etc.

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Select, Copy, Paste, and Delete All in Google Docs

To select everything, for example, you can use the simplest method — when you click-hold at the start or end of the document and drag the mouse to its opposite side

You can do it this way, or level up and use the command. So, go to the “Edit” menu on the toolbar at the top of the page and then go down to the “Select all” item. There you go

NB! The next method on how to select all the data in the document is performed via the shortcut. Basically, press Ctrl + A for Windows OS and Cmd + A for Mac OS. And here you go.

Delete, Copy & Paste in Google Docs

And after selecting all the data on the document, you can delete it, copy it, paste it, and cut it.

You can do all these functions via the context menu, which we bring up with the right mouse click on the selected data. And here you have the “Copy”, “Paste”, and “Delete” commands

Or, for instance, we can do all these functions via the shortcuts

NB! To delete the selected data, you basically need “Backspace” or “Delete” on the keyboard.

NB! To copy the data, press Ctrl + C for Windows OS and Cmd + C for Mac OS.

NB! To paste the data, press Ctrl + V for Windows OS and Cmd + V for Mac OS.

NB! And to cut the data, press Ctrl + X for Windows OS and Cmd + X for Mac OS.

NB! And be aware that these actions are applied to all the content in the document, and not just the text, but images, tables, and all other types of data.

NB! In this tutorial, we work with the whole document (all the data in the document) and implement all the actions above for it. And you can also select a particular part or some particular parts of the content and implement the functions mentioned above for it/them.

We hope this tutorial will help you learn how to select all the data, copy, paste, and delete in Google Docs. Good luck!

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