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When you have selected an item by one of the methods described above you can copy or move it to another place with the Mouse or with the Keyboard.

Copying and moving items with the mouse

Use Windows Drag and Drop. To Move an item, do the following;

Move the mouse over the selection until the pointer is an arrow pointing upwards from right to left like this
Press and hold the left mouse key
Move the mouse pointer where you want the item to go
Let go of the left mouse key

If you want to Copy instead of Move, hold the Ctrl key while you do the above.

Copying and moving items with the keyboard

Use the Windows Clipboard shortcut keys to copy the selected item to the Clipboard:

Ctrl + C to copy and leave in place
Ctrl + X to cut from the current location

Move the Insertion Point to the desired location, and press Ctrl + V to paste the Clipboard into the new location

Undoing mistakes

Because of the many types of table elements you can select, it is easy to make a mistake. If you want to undo a mistake, you can press the mouse on the Undo button on Word's Quick Access Toolbar, or press Ctrl + Z on the keyboard.