Barb, hold down on the left key while dragging curser over what you want to copy. This will highlight what you want. Then move the curser over the highlighted section right click and either hit copy. Then go to where you're writing your message, when the cuser is on the screen right click again and hit paste. Control C also copies while Control V pastes.

kljcmc, if I might add................

Barb, first place your mouse curser at the beginning of the text you want to copy, then hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse curser over the text you want to copy.  You will see how this highlights text. (try it right here on this text) This will highlight what you want. When you are satisfied with the highlighted text let go of the left mouse button. Then move the curser over the highlighted section, anywhere, and right click your mouse and select  copy. Then go to where you're writing your message, (quick reply) and place the curser is on the screen where you want your copied text to start. right click again and hit (select) paste. Control C also copies while Control V pastes highlighted text from the keyboard.

I hope this helps....

Well this was just a test, very simple procedure, I feel a bit silly I didn't know how to do it, but I need to practice a little on just highlighting the parts I want.  Thanks both of you.

I only started using a computer last year so I still have a lot to learn.

kljmc,

In reply to your last post we do kind of agree on some things. I don't like tax money being spent on spongers who just don't want to work either. The best solution to that is to report welfare abuse when you see it. In our area spongers don't last long and the people who do get help from the governemnt really need the help, and most of them only need temporary assistance. We have a few badly disabled and elderly who do have to have long-term assistance but those that are able to work get reported if they try to abuse the system.

Second, I don't think young people are the uneducated should make as much as those who have earned the higher pay. However I do realize there are some young people that don't have family or have never had any decent kind of support from adults do sometimes need a little help with education and or work programs.

Third, I don't think huge corporation already making millions in profit need tax cuts, but I would like to see tax cuts for the self-employed small businesses as they are currently double taxed as both employee and employer. I would like to see all businesses especially big corporations get employment related tax cuts so that it would not cost them so much in taxes to hire employess or pay them higher wages.

Fourth, I believe that whether we like it or not and regardless of who is president with the current deficit we face and the expense of the war in Iraq taxes are going to be raised, and lower and lower middle class workers don't have the income to pay more taxes so it needs to come from the higher income levels. Naturally there are better ways to balance the budget than raising taxes, but a president that wants to keep pumping money into other country developments, continued oil subsidizing and other special interests like Bear Stearns, is going to require more tax money especially if he manages to get tax cuts for big corporations. Everyone complains about welfare programs and I will be the first to say that an overhaul in this area is needed, but I would rather see my tax money go to helping people that really don't have any money than go to wealthy corporations, construction, oil, etc,. etc., or industrial developments in other countries.  Currently many of the extremely wealthy have so many tax loopholes that many of them pay less taxes then the hard working middle class citizen.  This tax information comes from sources that I trust.

Barb, glad you got your cut and paste thing going. Don't feel silly, we all had to learn it too. 

Just some numbers about your post. Our deficit is around $9.4 T. And hasen't gone down for years and years, mostly higher. In 2007 actual spending for the DOD was about $580 B. Health and human services used almost $700 B. But if you add in the "off budget" Social Security spending of over $600 B the total becomes about $13,000 B for social programs. 

Waiting For Obama: The First Global Election

AP/Lawrence Jackson

 

Derek Shearer: Nothing could be more accurate today than the political chant from Chicago in 1968: "The Whole World is Watching." The level of interest in the upcoming U.S. presidential contest is incredibly high, greater than at any time in post-Cold War history. This is due to the rapid decline of America's reputation abroad during the Bush administration and to the hope that Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama will restore America's image not with public relations, but with new internationalist policies. In the past month, I have seen this phenomenon first hand. Click here to read more.

The whole world really is watching this time.

Carpe Diem.!!

Come on Seti03, watching what?