Welcome to the Treehouse Community
Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.
Looking to learn something new?
Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.
Start your free trial
Anthony Erdenetuguldur
Courses Plus Student 412 PointsCopy and Paste, I am using windows and I can not paste using my mouse
I am unable to paste into the console on what I copied. I am using Windows 7 and did Copy with my mouse.
14 Answers
annecalija
9,031 PointsI struggled with the same problem. I am using Windows 10 and Chrome browser.
How I managed to paste:
- Highlight the word to copy
- Right click > Copy
- Right click on the TITLE BAR of the window, from there you should see the PASTE option.
Just make sure your text cursor is already where you want to paste it.
Hope this helps!
Anthony Erdenetuguldur
Courses Plus Student 412 PointsControl+V does not work, it gives ^V which is not what I copied.
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherAre you trying to paste into your console? Because neither the mouse nor the CTRL + V will work in that case...
Anthony Erdenetuguldur
Courses Plus Student 412 PointsThe instructor was able to do but he was using a mac.
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherYup I found the part where he does it, and I can't do it either. Not using Windows. My best guess is that because it's a terminal and is based on Ubuntu that the Mac understands it in some way that Windows doesn't. As Mac OS X is also based on a Linux variant (Darwin).
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,074 PointsIn my keyboard I have a key between the Alt Gr and the Ctrl that brings up the menu that you would bring up by right clicking or you could try "Shift + F10".
I hope that helps a little bit
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherWell, I hope it helps him, but neither one of those work for me. The menu key brings up the context menu for the webpage itself (ie inspect element and so forth). The shift + F10 prints out a tilde :)
Anthony Erdenetuguldur
Courses Plus Student 412 Pointskey between the Alt Gr and the Ctrl ? you mean the windows key?
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherThe CTRL and Alt Gr on the right side of the keyboard should have the Windows key and another key between them. That's the one he means. But, again, doesn't work for me.
Anthony Erdenetuguldur
Courses Plus Student 412 PointsWhat is Alt Gr? I do not understand Gr
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherAre you using a US keyboard? If so.. it doesn't have ALT GR I don't think...
Carlos Federico Puebla Larregle
21,074 PointsGraphical, it should be placed at the right of the space bar. The button I was telling you about is the one with the "menu/pointer" looking.
Anthony Erdenetuguldur
Courses Plus Student 412 Pointsgot it.
Anthony Erdenetuguldur
Courses Plus Student 412 PointsI have the button on my keyboard, which is shortcut of the right click of the mouse, which does not give me the option to paste.
Nicolas Bassano
2,125 Pointspfff, this is a little bit old but ill post anyway.
It works for me in W10 Powershell.
I can copy from anywhere I want and when I "right click" on the python console it pastes whatever Ive copied.
Using Python 3.5.2
mengtingheth
2,333 PointsNone of these works for me, tried "shift + F10", "right click", "left click", " CTRL + V", has anyone figured out a way of pasting content?
Allison Schaaf
33,322 PointsI can paste into the console using the right click button on my mouse. I haven't found a keyboard shortcut that works on my Mac.
Anders Axelsen
3,471 PointsI had the same problem in IE on windows. I solved it by rewriting the number myself. Ofcourse, this isn't optimal. However, it trains your motor-memory.
keenyahofmaier
944 Pointssame problem here. I just wrote out the number but I'm sure that gets tedious...
George Eddie
2,483 PointsGeorge Eddie
2,483 PointsHeya Anne,
Thanks for posting a resolution for this, your method is working for me as well. it was driving me spare trying to work out how to paste for the numbers section of intro to python. It works in the project but not the shell.
(I was also using win10 and chrome, but tried firefox as well) Is there a way to submit this as a bug report? wasted a good 20mins trying to find an answer....