Luddite needs help

[Prunesquallor]

This will brand me as a hopeless Luddite and have the techno-buffs sniggering but- if I wanted to post a piece of prewritten text on, say, the writers' forum, do I have to laboriously write it out or is there some way I can transfer it straight?

[wkwillis]

This will brand me as a hopeless Luddite and have the techno-buffs sniggering but- if I wanted to post a piece of prewritten text on, say, the writers' forum, do I have to laboriously write it out or is there some way I can transfer it straight?

Go to the file or whatever you want to move stuff from. Word, or Wordpad, or Notepad, or whatever, as long as it's in Windows.

Move the mouse to the text you want to move, then hold down the right button and draw the dark area over the text. Let go of the right button when you have 'selected' the text you want by drawing the dark area over it.

Up at the top left of the screen are some words like File, Edit, View, etc.
Then go to the Edit word and 'right click' again, which will open up a menu saying cut, copy, etc. Paste is there but it will be 'greyed' out. Right click on copy. You have moved the text you 'copied' to the 'clipboard'. It will stay there till you 'copy' or 'cut' something else, or turn off the computer.

Now go to this site, to where you want to move the text.

Put your cursor, the line or whatever that marks where the text is, to where you want the text to go. Then go back up to Edit and right click to open it, and then right click on paste. The text should appear.

If you want to copy it all, the whole file, and put it into someplace like here, then instead of using the right click to draw the dark area over the text, you can go up to edit and right click, then when the Edit menu opens you can right click on 'Select All', and the whole file will turn dark. Then go here and paste it.

Then go read a book on Windows. A recent one, written in the last couple of years, depending on which version of Windows you have. I have Windows ME. Windows XP is the latest.

[Prunesquallor]

Thanks. That was quite a bit of help.