Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As much as it’s now fairly easy to type quickly on touchscreen ...

If you need to move text, an image or another object from one part of a document to another, or from one app to another, you need to use copy (or cut) and paste. On a Mac or MacBook, the keyboard ...

There's also the Mac clipboard, though you'll need a separate app if you want to look back through your clipboard history. Reading time 3 minutes Get ready for the two keyboard shortcuts you’ll get ...

You copy something, paste it into Word, and suddenly it’s a formatting disaster. You aren't alone. I learned these paste tricks the hard way—so you don’t have to. Paste Special should be your go-to ...

All major desktop operating systems offer a limited set of clipboard management features. For example, if you’re on macOS, the built-in clipboard manager on your system uses just one buffer, which ...

Put the mouse down, and copy and paste inside a terminal with your keyboard using Screen. Screen is a command-line tool that lets you set up multiple terminal windows within it, detach them and ...