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When you copy something (using Edit/Copy from the menu or a key combination of CTRL+C), what you copy is stored in the computer’s memory (RAM). What you copied is stored with its values and formatting. Let’s say you copy some text that has special formatting applied but that you don’t want this formatting in your new document. In this case, don’t select Edit/Paste from the menu. Instead, select Edit/Paste Special. Then, select Unformatted Text from the list. This action pastes in the text but not its special formatting.

In Windows applications and in Windows operating systems, you can learn a lot by right-clicking an object. For example, in a Word document, you can highlight a word (double-click a word to highlight it), sentence, paragraph, or entire document (CTRL+A highlights the entire document). Once you highlight something, right-click it. This opens a context menu that tells you all of the things you can do to the object (in this case, text) you have highlighted. If you select Font from the list, you can format the font for that particular word.

Finally, If you select File and then click Print Preview, you get an idea as to what your document will look like when it prints. Then, after looking over your document, if you click File and then click Page Setup, you can customize what your document will look like when it prints. For example, let’s say that I want my document to print in Landscape rather than Portrait. I can set this here, preview what it looks like, and print it if I like what I see!

In business, you must know how to use PowerPoint.

Think of PowerPoint as an application that is like a slide show. You probably remember your parents, showing their friends, or you if you were unlucky, a slide show from a trip they took. Some might refer to this as PowerPoint lite.

Using PowerPoint, you can take that slide show to your computer and add cool graphics, sounds, and lots more. Instead of using the old slide carousel we might have used in the past, we can now show it on our computer.