How to Copy and Paste Content on Facebook

This is an article that shows you how to copy Facebook content and paste it into another input field on Facebook or elsewhere. You can also do this in reverse by copying content from a source outside of Facebook and pasting it onto Facebook. Copying and pasting content is available on the Facebook mobile app and on the Facebook page.

Table of Contents

On the phone

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Open Facebook by tapping the app with the white “f” icon on a dark blue background. This will open the News Feed page, if you’re signed in to Facebook.

If you’re not logged in, enter your email address (or phone number) and password before continuing.

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Find the content you want to copy. Scroll through Facebook until you find the status or comment you want to copy, then tap the piece of content. You can’t copy Facebook photos or videos, but you can copy any text you see.

If you want to copy something on another page, you’ll access that page from a web browser on your phone or tablet, and then follow these steps.

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Touch and hold the piece of content. After a few seconds, you will see the text in bold with the appearance of a menu.

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Touch the Copy option in the displayed menu to copy the selected content.

On Android, you will select Copy text .

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Go to the place where you want to paste the copied content. If you want to paste the copied content on Facebook, you will find the appropriate comment section or the status text box to paste.

If you copied content from another site, open Facebook at this step.

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Touch and hold the input field to open the menu.

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Tap Paste in the menu. You will see the copied content displayed in the selected data field.

If you paste the content elsewhere, the menu you see may be slightly different. In this case, just find and select Paste .

On the computer

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Open Facebook by accessing https://www.facebook.com/ from a web browser. This will open the News Feed page, if you’re signed in to Facebook.

If you’re not logged in, enter your email address (or phone number) and password before continuing.

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Find the content to copy. Find the status or comment you want to copy.

Please visit another website or source other than Facebook if you want to copy content from there.

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Select the content by clicking and dragging from the beginning to the end of the piece of content that you want to copy. The content will be highlighted while you click and drag the mouse.

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Copy content. Pressing Ctrl and C (or ⌘ Command and C on Mac) at the same time copies the selected content.

You can also right-click the content and select Copy… from the menu that appears.

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Go to the place where you want to paste the copied content. Find the input field (such as a comment box or a status box) where you want to paste the content on Facebook.

If you want to paste content somewhere other than Facebook (such as an email), you’ll go to the website, app, or section of the document where you want to paste the content.

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Click in the data field so that the mouse pointer is displayed there.

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Paste content. You need to make sure the mouse pointer is placed in the input field, and then press Ctrl + V (or ⌘ Command + V on Mac) to paste the content. You will see the copied content displayed in the data input field.

Similar to copying, you’ll also right-click the input field and choose Paste in the menu.
On a Mac, you can click Edit at the top of the screen and then choose Paste in the menu that appears.

Advice

If you want to copy an entire article, video or photo from another website, you should find the Share option. If the article/photo/video is posted on Facebook, you can select Share below the post and then select Share Now .

Warning

Copying someone else’s content without citing the source is plagiarism – an act that is often condemned. Remember to specify the source when copying other people’s content.

Steps

On the phone

On the computer

Advice

Warning

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