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text highlighting (if it’s a text box or drop-down menu) or a dotted-line

outline (if it’s a button).

Once you’ve highlighted a button or a checkbox, simply press the space
bar to “click” it. If you’ve opened a drop-down list or a set of mutually

exclusive option buttons (or radio buttons), then press the or keys.
(Once you’ve highlighted a drop-down list’s name, you can also press
the F4 key to open it.)

Each dialog box also contains larger, rectangular buttons at the bottom
(OK and Cancel, for example).

Keyboard and efficiency fans should remember that tapping the Enter

key is always the equivalent of clicking the default button—the one
with the darkened or thickened outline (the OK button in this
illustration). And pressing Esc almost always means Cancel (or “Close
this box”).

Moving Data Between Documents

You can’t paste a picture into your web browser, and you can’t paste MIDI
music into your desktop publishing program. But you can put graphics into

your word processor, paste movies into your database, insert text into
Photoshop, and combine a surprising variety of seemingly dissimilar kinds

of data. And you can transfer text from web pages, email messages, and
word-processing documents to other email and word-processing files; in
fact, that’s one of the most frequently performed tasks in all of computing.

Cut, Copy, and Paste

Most experienced PC fans have learned to quickly trigger the Cut, Copy,
and Paste commands from the keyboard—without even thinking.

You can cut and copy highlighted material in any of three ways. First, you

can use the Cut and Copy commands in the Edit menu; second, you can
press Ctrl+X (for Cut) or Ctrl+C (for Copy); and third, you can right-click