Which action actually pastes the clipboard content into the open document?

• A. Copy
• B. Paste
• C. Cut
• D. Clear Formatting

Answer: (B)

In Word, clipboard operations determine how data move into a document. Pasting is the action that inserts whatever is on the clipboard into the open document at the current insertion point. Copy copies the selected text to the clipboard but doesn’t change the document. Cut removes the selected text from the document and places it on the clipboard, effectively moving it. Clear Formatting only changes how the selected text looks, removing formatting without adding new text. So, the action that actually places the clipboard content into the document is paste. If text is on the clipboard and you paste, it appears at the cursor; if you have something selected, pasting replaces that selection with the clipboard content.