If you want to copy text from an Internet site and paste that text into your document, follow these steps:

1. First go to the site where you want to copy text. Then locate the information to copy:

   

2. Then move your mouse pointer to the beginning of the section you wish to copy:

   

3. Next, click and hold your left mouse button. While holding down your left mouse button, move your mouse on your work surface to highlight the section you wish to copy:

   

4. Then release the mouse button and click on "Edit" on the menu bar. Then click "Copy" on the Edit menu:

   

   Note: If you prefer, move your mouse pointer over the highlighted text and click your right mouse button on the highlighted text. Then click "Copy":

   

5. Then open your word processing program (if it is not already open), and click on "Edit" on the menu bar. Then click on "Paste" to place the text you have copied from the Internet site into your document at the place where your cursor is blinking on the screen:

   

   Note: You can also click your right mouse button and then click "Paste":

   
   
   Caution: Before you leave the site, you should copy the Internet (Web) address and then paste it into the text that you paste into your document. Be sure that you also enter the date that you obtained this information and take note of the date (if one is displayed) at either the top or bottom of the Web page that the document was written or updated on the Internet. You will need both these dates and the Web address to document your source of borrowed information. To copy the address, move your mouse pointer to the right of the Internet address and then click your left mouse button:

   

6. When the text of the address is highlighted, click "Edit" on the menu bar and then "Copy" or click your right mouse button and then click "Copy" (You can also hold down the "Control key" (Ctrl) and the letter "C" at the same time:

   

7. You will then paste this address into the bottom of your document, along with the date, for later use if you use this information in a formal essay or report.