Use the key shortcuts of Ctrl+X, C, V
Select the menu options under the Edit menu
Use shortcut buttons on the top bar (when available).
I also am a "right-click" person but I also do the Ctlr+ a lot!
I think it's a "mood thing" for me.
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.
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......
Always right click mouse....
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.
my laptop's right click button is not working so ctrl + C
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.
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Right click or keyboard shortcuts, which ever's handy at the time. Very rarely the Edit dropdown........I'd almost forgotten it's there.
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.
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