Navigating Changes

Editing, copying and pasting have taken on a whole new meaning.  With other documents and spreadsheets you can only edit, copy and paste in one location, and with one computer.  This is not the case with Google Docs.  Docs is innovative enough to allow coping, editing and pasting not only between online documents, but from one computer to another, as well as one document to another; i.e. from docs word to a docs spreadsheet. 

Tutorials and How To:

·    "Copy a set of cells in a spreadsheet, and paste it into a document as a properly formatted table.

·     Copy something in your work computer and paste it into another when you access your Google Account from your home computer.

·     Access items you previously copied, as long as you were signed in.

There are two ways to copy and paste: keyboard shortcuts and the server clipboard menu.

Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V

For most copying and pasting, you can use the familiar keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl-C (Copy) and Ctrl-V (Paste). This even works when going from one doc type to another. But there are a couple of exceptions in which keyboard shortcuts don't work as well (yet). In these cases, you should use the server clipboard menu:

·     If you're copying between presentations and another doc type

·     If you want to copy on one computer and paste on another

·     If you want to copy something you aren't going to paste right away

The server clipboard menu

There are a few specific cases in which the best way to copy and paste is using the server clipboard menu. When you copy a selection using this menu, the content you copy is stored and associated with your Google Account. That means you can copy more than one selection and then choose which one to paste later; it also means you can copy something on one computer and then paste it on another. To copy a selection using the server clipboard menu, follow these steps:

1.  Select what you'd like to copy.

2.  Click the Server clipboard menu that appears in the toolbar of your doc.

3.  Click Copy selection to server clipboard.

4.  In the destination document, click the server clipboard menu; you'll see the selection that you previously copied. If you copied multiple things, you'll see a list of the items you've recently copied.

5.  Place the cursor where you want to paste the content.

6.  Click the Server clipboard menu.

7.  Select what you want to paste. Depending on your selection, you'll see different formats that you can choose from to paste what you've copied (for example, HTML or plain text).

8.  Select a format."