Copying text from the web (Taking text to use in another application)
  1. If you'd like to copy text from a web page to a document (e.g. Word/Works/etc.)
  2. Click and drag over the text you want. Basically, click and hold down on the left mouse button at the top left corner of the text you want to select and drag to the right and/or down until all the text you want is "highlighted" in black.  (i.e. like this)
  3. Once the text is highlighted, click on Edit and then on Copy on the toolbar
  4. For this demo - we'll minimize Netscape by clicking on the _  symbol on the upper right of the screen and then double click on the Microsoft Word icon to open that program.
  5. When Microsoft Word opens, it will automatically open a new document, to paste the text you just copied - click on Edit and then on Paste and the text you copied will appear.
  6. Note: You might have to reformat the text a bit, the computer isn't always good enough to bring the formatting along with the text. 
  7. Additionally, for a "quick" way to do this CTRL+C is the keyboard command for copy and CTRL+V is the command for paste

  Let's try it with the text below:

  INFOLINK is one of four regional cooperatives of the New Jersey Library Network. The 315 voting members include 928 public and private school, public, academic, institutional, corporate, health sciences and special libraries and library-related agencies. The region includes the three largest municipal public libraries in the state as well as many universities and colleges. Most libraries are organized by municipality and governed by individual boards. A member-elected Executive Board, which meets monthly to oversee the programs and services of the cooperative.

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