On Chrome, you can install the Office - Enable Copy and Paste Extension, which will allows you to cut, copy, and paste with your mouse on all the Office Online apps. If you don’t want to do this, use the -C, -X, and -V keyboard commands. If you are using Firefox and you want to use the Copy, Cut, and Paste commands on the Word for the web ribbon, you need to allow JavaScript to use the clipboard. You can reapply these in the new location. When you do, the text is inserted into the new location without its formatting such as bold, italics, or a particular color. You can paste the contents of the clipboard outside the document.
Then, press CTRL+C (Windows) or ⌘+C (Mac) to copy text. When you open a document in Reading view, you can select text a line at a time by dragging the mouse (not double-clicking). Which program are you using?Ĭopy and paste behavior differs according to whether you are viewing, reviewing, or editing a Word document in the browser, and whether you are pasting content from outside Word for the web.
This article gives you steps for copying and pasting in each of the Office for the web programs. Because of the limitations of web browser technology, copying and pasting text in Microsoft Office for the web differs from copying and pasting text in the Office desktop applications.
