Gateway 400 Copying and moving files and folders, To copy a file or folder to another folder

Chapter 4: Windows Basics

Copying and moving files and folders

The skills you need to copy and move files are called copying, cutting, and pasting.

When you copy and paste a file or folder, you place a copy of the file or folder on the Windows clipboard, which temporarily stores it. Then, when you decide what folder you want the copy to go in (the destination folder), you paste it there.

When you cut and paste a file or folder, you remove the file or folder from its original location and place the file or folder on the Windows clipboard. When you decide where you want the file or folder to go, you paste it there.

Important

The clipboard stores whatever you cut or copy until you cut or copy again. Then the clipboard contains the new information only. Therefore, you can paste copies of a file or folder into more than one place, but as soon as you copy or cut a different file or folder, the original file or folder is deleted from the clipboard.

To copy a file or folder to another folder:

1 Locate the file or folder you want to copy. For more information, see

“Viewing drives” on page 51 and “Searching for files” on page 59.

2 Right-click (press the right touchpad button) the file or folder that you want to copy. A pop-up menu opens on the desktop.

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Click Copy on the pop-up menu.

Open the destination folder.

With the pointer inside the destination folder, right-click.

Click Paste. A copy of the file or folder appears in the new location.

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