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How To Copy And Paste On Mac – An Ultimate Guide

Mac is an apple produced device that is very well known for its incredible features like smooth touch and greater privacy and security. If you recently got a new Mac laptop and started writing or something then you must be wondering how to copy and how to paste on Mac. Well, no worries because in this guide we will instruct you on how you can copy and paste on a Mac.

The copy and paste shortcut keys are pretty different when compared to regular pc shortcut keys. We will talk about how you can easily copy and paste using the mouse, trackpad, and keyboard

How To Copy and Paste on Mac Using The Mouse

If you want to know how to copy text and how to paste on mac then this is the simplest method to use. You will be using the mouse on your Mac laptop. Here is how to do it:

1. Simply move your cursor to the text you want to copy.

2. Highlight the text and right-click.

how to copy and paste on mac using the mouse

3. When you right-click, you will see a “Copy” option in the drop-down menu. Click “Copy” and your text will be copied. The same goes for the “Cut” if you want to cut the text, simply click “Cut”.

how to copy and paste on mac using mouse

4. Now in order to paste it wherever you like, you simply need to move the cursor to the page you want to paste it on and right-click and choose “paste” in the drop-down menu.

how to copy and paste on mac using mouse

5. Now your text will be pasted.

How To Copy and Paste on Mac Using The Keyboard Shortcut Keys

Coping a text using the keyboard shortcut keys is the easiest way to do it and the most efficient one. As someone myself who knows how to type at the highest speed possible. I would very much prefer to use the shortcut keys because when you are typing, you don’t want to touch the mouse. You would rather keep your hands to your keyboard. Let’s see how to copy and how to paste on mac using the shortcut keys:

 1. First, highlight the text you want to copy.

 2. Afterward, just hold the “Command” key and then press the “C” key to copy the text.

copy and paste on Mac with keyboard

 3. This will copy the text for you for sure. And if you want to fully cut the text then simply hold the “Command” key and then press the “X” key to cut the text.

 4. Now let’s get to text pasting. Once you have copied or cut the text, all you need to do is get to the page or file where you would like to paste the text.

 5. Just open up the page and hold the “Command” key and then press “V” to paste the text there. This will immediately paste the text to your desired word page or notepad.

Copy and paste on mac

How To Copy and Paste on Mac Using The Trackpad

There are multiple methods to do the copy and paste thing. And this one is just another easiest way to do it. Let’s see how to copy and how to paste on mac using the trackpad:

 1. This step is the same as every other. Firstly highlight the text you want to copy and then paste afterward.

 2. Once highlighted, you need to touch the trackpad with two fingers. Once you do that, it will bring up a contextual menu where you will see the “Copy” option.

how to copy and how to paste on mac

 3. So once you see the “Copy” option in the contextual drop-down menu, simply click it. This will copy the text for you. Or Click “Cut” if you want to Cut and Paste.

 4. Now go to the word page or notepad where you would like to paste the copied text.

 5. And then again tap with two fingers on the page and then in the menu, you will see the “paste” option available to you. Simply click “Paste” and it will paste the text on your desired page location for you.

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Find The Clipboard on Mac if You Forget What You Copied The Last Time Around

 1. In order to find the clipboard you first need to open the “Finder”

 2. Once the Finder is open you need to click the “Edit” Option. Now a drop-down menu will be displayed on the screen.

Find the clipboard on Mac

 3. Click the “Show clipboard” option and you will see it in the drop-down menu.

 4. Now this will show you what you have copied most recently and a few hours back. Except it is not something that keeps a record of everything you copy. So it will simply show you the very recent copied text.

Find The Clipboard on Mac

Conclusion

In this extensive guide, we have shown you how to copy and how to paste on mac. This guide is easier to understand and follow up on. First, we talked about copying and pasting the text using the mouse. This method is the same as any other, you would be simply right-clicking and copying the text and right-clicking and pasting the text.

Second, we talked about copying and pasting text using the keyboard shortcut keys, which are: Command+C if you want to Copy, Command+X if you want to cut, and finally Command+V for pasting the text. We also showed you how to copy and paste using the trackpad on Mac. Well, you would be lightly touching the trackpad with your two fingers, this will bring up a contextual menu and you would be choosing “Copy”.

Again in order to paste the copied text, you would be touching the trackpad with two fingers and tapping the “Paste” button in the contextual menu. These are some of the easiest everyday methods people use to copy and paste on Mac, I hope you have learned something interesting in this guide. Also, these are the same methods you can use to cut, copy and paste the files and folders as well. Thanks for reading!

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