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Choose the Edit tool
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Drag the mouse over an area of the data window to select the data you want to paste.
If the Always open dropped files in new window check box on the General page of the Preferences dialog is cleared, you can also hold Ctrl while dragging a file (or region) from the Explorer window to a data window to paste sound data. When the check box is selected, dropping a file on the Sound Forge workspace always creates a new data window.
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Drag the selection to the location where you want to paste the data and then press and hold Ctrl. The cursor is displayed as a
, and a vertical line is displayed to show you where the paste will occur.
You can click the right mouse button while dragging to toggle mix, paste, and CD track drag-and-drop modes.
When dragging a selection to paste sound data, drag up or down before moving the mouse left or right. Dragging left or right before moving the mouse vertically adjusts the selection length.
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When you release the mouse button to drop the selection, the selection is pasted.
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Choose the Edit tool
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Drag the mouse over an area of the data window to select the data you want to mix or crossfade, and then click Cut
or Copy 
to place the audio on the clipboard.
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Click to position the cursor where you want to paste the contents of the clipboard.
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From the Edit menu, choose Paste.
Paste |
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From the Edit menu, choose Paste to insert a copy of the clipboard contents at the current cursor position. If there is a selection, the Paste command deletes the selected data before inserting.
Notes:
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From the Options menu, choose Drag-and-Drop Editing, and choose Paste from the submenu if you want to use paste mode during drag-and-drop editing. Choosing this command has the same effect as toggle-clicking the right mouse button while dragging until the cursor is displayed as a
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You can click the right mouse button while dragging to toggle mix, paste, and CD track drag-and-drop modes. -
Pasting into a multichannel file will insert data to all channels — the channels in a multichannel file must always be equal in length.
Before Paste
(clipboard contents are highlighted)
After Paste
Silence is pasted to the unselected channel.
If multiple channels were selected, the same data would be pasted to all selected channels, and silence would be pasted to the unselected channel
If no channels were selected, the same data would be pasted to all channels.
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Pasting data of different sample rates will cause the data in the clipboard to play at the same rate as the rate of the window in which the data is pasted.
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If any regions, markers, or loops are present in with the original sound data, they will also be pasted into the destination sound file. To turn this feature off, turn off the Paste Markers/Regions command on the Options menu.
What do you want to do?
Paste by dragging and dropping a selection
Paste audio from the clipboard
