How do you normally cut, copy & paste?

**tonylondon** · 21 December 2009, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by HayTay

The Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V keyboard shortcuts are so ingrained into my work flow I use them nearly 100% of the time. I never use the Edit Menu drop-down options or shortcut buttons, however, I do occasionally (albeit rarely) use the mouse by alt/right+clicking and selecting cut, copy, paste, delete, etc. from the pop-out menu.

Me too, exactly

**ItsReallyCheryl** · 21 December 2009, 01:59 PM

I also am a "right-click" person but I also do the Ctlr+ a lot!

I think it's a "mood thing" for me.

**jclements** · 22 December 2009, 03:09 AM

I use Ctrl-keys combos.

However, in all my other apps that have a paste-in-place option with programable keys I adapt them to Xara's I use Ctrl-Shift-V. Paste-in-place is the winner for me.

**meltsner** · 23 December 2009, 02:20 AM

Give me a keyboard shortcut and I'm a happy camper

I occasionally use rt. click, but the menu bar, or better yet EDIT menu?? Not here.

I use one hand for the mouse and the other literally hovers over the left Ctrl/Shift area, ready for action......

**Sonjia** · 01 January 2010, 11:50 AM

Always right click mouse....

**Sadler** · 08 February 2010, 09:15 AM

Even older than Ctrl+XCV is Shift+Insert, Shift-Delete and Ctrl+Insert which have been standard in Windows since version .

Perhaps not a big deal to all those youngsters who've only known the later combinations but I miss those short-cuts in Xara (and a very few other apps). Not just because they're intuitive and familiar to me but because, as a leftie mouse user (RSI in the right), the keys on the right of the keyboard are more convenient.

**jackquil36** · 08 February 2010, 07:08 PM

my laptop's right click button is not working so ctrl + C

**Spinny** · 11 February 2010, 06:40 PM

CTRL keys almost exclusively. Exceptions come when I need a special paste function that doesn't have a key shortcut (or I don't know it), but those aren't common.

**Penny O'Rorke** · 12 February 2010, 03:01 PM

Right click or keyboard shortcuts, which ever's handy at the time. Very rarely the Edit dropdown........I'd almost forgotten it's there.

**Gamerprinter** · 20 February 2010, 07:55 PM

Normally I just use the menu options, unless I am doing lots of cut/paste work in repetition, then I use the "short cut keys". However most of my work has only a modicum of cut and paste. Mostly to remove a layer above what I am currently working with then "paste in place" within Xara. So I use cut and paste more as a layer management process rather than cut and pasting in order to add content to a graphic that I am working on.

Sometimes however, I create an element of a general project in a different file, saved so I can go back to it later, which I copy, then paste in the main project document.

GP