My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

Chapter 11. Learning to Drag and Drop

To copy or move items, you can select the Cut or Copy command from the Edit menu or use the equivalent keyboard shortcuts, such as -X and -C. For an even faster way to copy or move items, you can use your mouse to drag and drop the items.

Dragging means pointing the mouse at an item and moving the mouse while holding down the left mouse button. Dropping means releasing the left mouse button when the pointer appears where you want to place a dragged item. Since dragging and dropping can be used as a shortcut to ...