Copying, cutting, pasting
A friend who wrote her MSc dissertation on some aspect of concrete, started with the words "Crushing and grinding are some of the oldest activities known to man".   This section might well begin "copying & pasting" are some of the oldest activities known to computer operators.  If you're not copying, cutting and pasting regularly, you're probably not making the most of what your computer can do, especially if you work with a suite of programs like Microsoft Office.
As you may have read in the WIMPs section, the wonder of windows is that you can jump from one to the other, and most information is exchangeable between one and another.  Thus, you can be surfing the internet, see a picture you like, copy it, open Microsoft Word, press 'paste' and, hey presto, there's that picture smack in the middle of your document. 
Copy, Cut & Paste like a pro
After opening your computer and finding out how to switch it on, there are three commands you should learn - copy, cut & paste.  If you want to know why I'm not suggesting you go to the edit menu, press copy, go to your other document, go back to edit menu and press paste, read the "wimps are for wimps" section. 
  1. Select some text you want to copy 
  2. Find the Ctrl button at the bottom left hand corner of your keyboard.  This is the "control" button. Pressing this changes the keyboard from a simple typewriter into a powerful computer controller
  3. Hold it down with your little finger
  4. Keeping it pressed down, press "C" ONCE with your index finger
Whatever you have copied will now stay on the computer's "clipboard" until you turn the computer off, or select something else and press Ctrl C.  You could wait 3 hours, then paste what you've copied into something.  But let's do it now:
  1. Place the cursor wherever you want the copied text to appear - in another document, or somewhere else within the document that you're already working on.
  2. Now press down the Ctrl button with your little finger
  3. Keeping it held down, press the "V" key once
  4. The text you copied earlier will appear
Ctrl X will also copy something to the clipboard, but will delete it from it's original position.
 

Control C - Copy
Control V - Paste
Control X - Cut (delete)