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My MacBook Pro won't let me copy and past text, or let me drag and drop?
This started happening a few days ago. I've been researching on it, but I can't find an answer anywhere. I went to system preferences, and restored every thing to default under keyboard shortcuts, and nothing's happening. I thought I and found the reason why I could't drag and drop: I went to system preferences, universal access, mouse & trackpad, trackpad options. Dragging had been selected somehow, so I selected it again. I thought that fixed my problem, but nothing changed.
I can copy and paste folders, icons, or documents, but thats about it. It won't let me copy and paste text on emails, textedit, or really anywhere. I normally copy and past by doing control v and control c, so when that didn't work I tried right clicking, going to edit copy/past, and tried going to edit and clicking "paste and match style". Literally nothings working, and anything I find on the topic just has people saying that you need to try erasing your computer and setting it back to its defaults. I really need to find a way to fix this, primarily the copy/paste issue, because I've got something huge due tomorrow that counts as a midterm for a class, and only half is done and it requires a lot of copying and pasting. Any sort of advise or tips are welcome! :((((
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
First of all, your right click may not be enabled. To enable it, go to System Preferences>Trackpad>Point & Click>Secondary Click. Once this is done, you will have to highlight the text you want to copy which is done by holding down after clicking and dragging along the text so that it is highlighted in blue. After you have highlighted the whole selection, right click on the highlighted area and click copy. to paste, right click in the area you want to paste into and click paste.
Source(s): I have a Mac of my own. - latassaLv 45 years ago
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