If you don't know how to copy and paste URLs

Often when I quote I will give you the URL so if you know how to copy and paste it you can go to the site easily. However, if you don't know how to do this then often the name of the article put into Google will bring up that article or similar articles so you can get more information if you want at that topic.

Some of the easiest ways to get this information would be: Google News, Yahoo News, BBC news, Bing News and many other soures. These bigger outlets often compile articles from all over the world and often you can just put in the subject you are interested in and find 20 or more articles on that subject from around the world. CNN news online or on TV is another great source. What I often will do is to DVR several hours of CNN news and fast forward until the subject I'm interested in comes up and then watch that and if it is interesting enough I report that back to you here.

Note: However, if you want to learn how to copy and paste what you need to do is to have two windows open at the same time (if you are doing this online and not to something like Word).

IF you are doing this with word you need to have one window at least open and word open instead.

So, with two windows open (if you are blogging) or if you want to paste to go to a site you first have to make sure you are in a computer mode where you can see something near the top that says: http://

then there will be stuff after that of your address in words that you are at then.

If you want to copy and past a new address for you to go to then take your mouse and hold the left click down while you start (usually at the right end of your address line) and it should be like putting a marker through your address or sentence. Then hit your space bar and your address should disappear from that line(if this freaks you out then hit the left arrow and then hit the right arrow and you likely will be back where you started).

However, if you already understand all this, you can then paste or type literally any address into the address area at near the top of your computer, then just hit "Enter" after you paste or write the new address and if you haven't made any mistakes you should soon go there.

So, now if you are in Explorer or Safari or Firefox or Google Chrome or some other Browser then in most of them (I usually use Firefox or Google Chrome) if it is available on whatever Computer I'm using because I find these two the best for Blogging but that's just me. My usual preference is Firefox even though at times there are many advantages to using Google Chrome especially if you are going through Google in whatever you are doing because they are very compatible.

So now, go up to where it says "edit" in a browser at the top of most browsers. Now click in Edit. A window should drop down and say something like "Undo" or redo then cut, copy, paste, delete and so on. Well. you need to become proficient with "Copy" and "Paste" but also "Undo" can be very helpful if you make a mistake while blogging or pasting a URL up into your address area.

Now in one window find what you want to copy: "URL" or whatever you want to copy to another location like a blog or to Word for a report or something.

In your first window left click your mouse and drag it over whatever you want to copy to another location. It should color it sort of like a marking pen you use in college to highlight something in a college book or something. Now go to word or another window where you want to copy this too.

And place the cursor exactly where you want to copy it too. Then after you place the cursor there go back and up to the Edit function drop down the window and hit "Paste" while you are either in the window you want to copy it to or in Word at the time. Whether it is a URL or whether it is a whole page or 20,000 words or whatever it should then copy to wherever you are sending it. But the longer it is the longer time it might take to go there and some computers and other devices might have a limitation of how much you can copy at one time. So, be aware of this too.

After you move stuff by copy and paste then save it wherever it is so you don't lose it while shifting between windows. This works and can be very helpful in compiling blogs or reports for work or for college or high school etc.

However, ONLY put URLs in the address line because it won't work if you put anything else there.

However, the address line in many newer computers you can also put a question (if you are in google or something like that and when you hit enter it might give you what you are looking for and then all you have to do is to click on it and go there. I find this saves me a lot of time doing this if I'm in google or something like that at the time anyway.

Also, you could also take stuff from word and copy and paste it into your blog online too for others to read if you want to. You could even put your whole book or books online for free if that is what you wanted to do.

If you don't know how to copy and paste URLs

Often when I quote something for you the software at that site doesn't allow me (for whatever the reason) to copy a word button that will take you to that site so you can actually read it from the original site that published it in the first place. So, then I have to use the url. But, if you don't know how to copy and paste urls (URls are the thing that starts with http: or www.) (By the way Http: simply means it is in the hypertext markup language and there are also many variations to this now as well.)

Each Web site manager or web technician or both have their own style of writing code and have their own tricks in place that fit their company that they represent. So, I have to honor their stance as a blogger and be sure to quote and give full credit to whoever wrote it and wherever it is from  either through a url or a word button that will take you there (as long as the web designer attached the word button to an actual url so your computer takes you there).

So, what I'm saying is if you don't know how to use a url on your computer, what you can do is open another window at Google.com and then type in the name of the article. Sometimes I make a different title other than the article name for a variety of reasons. But right above where the article usually starts is a title and if you put that title into Google.com usually you can find that same article immediately by so doing. Thanks.

Later note: In order to learn how to copy and paste URLs you have to have something at the top of your screen that starts with https: or Http:    If you don't have anything like that at the top of your screen right now (if you are on a computer) it means that your mode has been changed for some reason to a non-url mode where you can only click on word buttons. In order to copy and paste urls you have to be in a mode on your computer to have an http: or something like that or a www. at the top. So, if you want to cut and paste urls that is what you need and the easiest way would be to ask a tech (or someone knowledgeable in your family like anyone between 9 years old to about 30 who has been to school and studied about keyboards and computers). Also, I was noticing that sometimes my site here has https:// while composing but if I'm in view blog mode it doesn't have http: at all it just has:     intuitivefred888.blogspot.com

To copy and paste you should look up at the top to see (above the url line running along the top usually in white you should see (i'm in firefox as It is usually more secure from tampering) in firefox it says across the top Firefox then "file" then "Edit" then "View"

Click on edit and then a menu will drop down (from top to bottom you will see "Undo" "Redo" "cut" "copy" "Paste" and so up if you are reading top to bottom. Sometimes I use Undo if my copy mode hasn't actuated right to undo any mistakes it makes when I don't grab and copy certain information right. But, generally (about 80% to 90% of the time it works perfectly). So, if you want to grab some information (in this case your URL you want) take your cursor (your mouse mark) and move it to what you want to copy. The holding the left part of your mouse down drag it from right to left or left to right over the url you want to copy. Also, on my Macbook pro I have to left click and right click held down both as I drag it over whatever I want to copy. Usually that covers the url in blue. now lift up and usually it will stay in blue which means it is now copyable. Now move your cursor (mouse mark) up to the edit function at the top of the page and click on edit. While what you want to copy is still all blue move down and click "copy". Then open another window and put your cursor (mouse mark at the URL line) If the url line is empty completely. If it is not empty sometime you can move your cursor through it as long as you don't hit copy again. Then if you just hit your space bar what is in that url box should just disappear if you turned it blue, sometimes gray or yellow or orange or whatever your computer does. Now, put your cursor there in the box again (if it didn't stay there) and now go up to "Edit" and hit paste. If you now hit enter and you successfully copied all the pieces of the url it should then take you to the page you want.

This is the basic principle of how I compose or move urls or word buttons or anything in order to create this blog for you. Many times it is much faster to copy and paste than writing all sorts of stuff to your blog or to Word so you can print out 1 or 100 pages all at the same time doing this. Or you can create a blog this way as long as you are at Blogger.com and are in the compose mode and not the html mode while doing all this. Though you can also copy pictures this way often people are more sensitive about this than other things so be careful of that in respecting people's copyrights regarding pictures. So, my rule of thumb is if I'm copying and sharing with you an article with a picture or pictures in it that's okay. But, if it is an artist who makes a living by selling their art I try to be respectful of their livelihood.

Also, in regard to quoting articles from anywhere you are going to generally increase traffic and therefore wealth of many online publications by sharing stuff at your blog. So, for most people as long as you as respectful by putting "end quote from:" a specific source so people know you didn't write this but see who did, this also increases the traffic and sometimes wealth of people at that site. So, it is in their interests to have you blog about whatever they are doing there at that site.