Copy and paste may be the most important computing technology of the past 30 years. That may sound odd, but just think how much you rely on it. Most of us use the Copy and Paste commands multiple ...

Cutting and pasting in Microsoft Office applications saves you untold hours in typing and retyping data and text. If you are like many business users of Microsoft Excel, you probably perform countless ...

After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste. “When I make a copy-paste error, unlike ...

I’m always fascinated that someone designed just about everything you use, no matter how trivial it is. The keyboard you type on, the light switch you turn on, even the faucet handle. They don’t just ...

CUPERTINO, CALIF.- Apple Inc. is updating its software for iPhones so users can cut, copy and paste text -- a basic computing feature missing from the gadget that seems to do everything. At an iPhone ...

One of the most common early complaints about the iPhone was its lack of support for cut, copy, and paste text editing capabilities. In fact, Apple didn’t add a copy-paste feature until 2009’s release ...

Spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel, part of the Office program suite, is essential to the operation of many small businesses. Spreadsheets can be used for tracking almost any aspect of a ...

The man who created the computer shortcuts including "cut," "copy" and "paste," has died. He was 74. "The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more was former Xerox researcher Larry ...