How can I copy, cut and paste text to, from or within the editor?

You use the keyboard sequences of Ctrl-c (to copy), Ctrl-x (to cut), and Ctrl-v (to paste). The standard toolbar icons have been turned off - in a website editor, they are more trouble than they are worth.

• If your browser is Internet Explorer, they allow you to inadvertantly paste potentially damaging code into the website whenever you copy from a Word document and paste into the editor.
• If your browser is Firefox, you cannot use these functions unless you alter your browser's security functions - and this is not a straightforward procedure.

What is straightforward, however, are the replacements to these icons.

• To copy something from Word (or any other wordprocessor) and paste it into the online editor:
  1. Copy your text in your normal way.
  2. Click in the main content space of the online editor
  3. Paste the text into the editor using keyboard sequence of Ctrl-v (Ctrl-v means depress the Ctrl key and, keeping it depressed, tap the "v" key)
• To copy something from within your document in the online editor to somewhere else in the document:
  1. Highlight the area you want to copy by dragging your mouse from the beginning to the end of the section
  2. Copy that section of text by using the keyboard sequence Ctrl-c (i.e. depress the Ctrl key and with it depressed, tap "c").
  3. Position your cursor at the place in the document where you want to copy the section to (i.e. paste)
  4. Paste the copied section using the keyboard sequence Ctrl-v.
• To cut something from within your document in the online editor and paste it somewhere else in the document:
  1. Highlight the area you want to copy by dragging your mouse from the beginning to the end of the section
  2. Cut that section of text by using the keyboard sequence Ctrl-x
  3. Position your cursor at the place in the document where you want to paste the section
  4. Paste the copied section using the keyboard sequence Ctrl-v.