Use drag and drop to copy or move any item such as a document or file, or even text within a file. Firstly select the item, then click and hold down the mouse button to drag the selection to its new location. Letting go of the mouse button will drop the item into place. Drag can also be used as a selection technique, to select a range of text click and hold the mouse then drag until all the required text is selected. Drag see drag and drop .
Drop see drag and drop .
Floppy disc a removable disc for storing data. Also referred to as floppies or floppy diskettes. A floppy disc is inserted into a floppy disc drive to save data and must be formatted before use. Windows is a GUI operating system. GUI see Graphical User Interface .