How do you paste the multiple highlighted paragraphs into Word etc. in one shot?

Press Ctrl, choose the paragraphs, and then go copy-paste. I think you can use the Ctrl+V too, but I’m not sure.

To add more info:
I went here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/212319/how-to-collect-multiple-highlighted-text-selections-into-one-document-in-word-2013/

I got stuck on step 3 the drop down menu is completely diffrerent there and is no “Highlight” on what I’m using. Word 2013

@Sneki95 I can see how that would work for one paragraph (or contagious paragraphs as it would be called I guess according to the link I posted), but does it paste the multiple (unrelated) paragraphs in one shot?

Yes, I just managed to do it. Although the paragraphs are all pasted as one piece, they are not separated.I’m not sure if you could paste paragraphs from multiple different docs.

@flo I found this to explain more fully the first steps. I’m using Word 2010 but it looks just the same

Word has had a highlight feature for many years. I know that I was using it on Word / Office 2000, and I’m using it now on Office 2016. So highlighting is not a problem; you can do that, but you might not have seen it on the main ribbon / menu. It’s there.

The advice about using Ctrl-H and using it to locate the highlighted areas is fair; it works. But they gave bad advice after that.

After you have used Ctrl-H to “find” highlighting – or maybe even instead of that method – you can use Alt-E, F, the old-fashioned / traditional way to find text and formatting, and that method does produce a dialog box that enables the “Find In” button that is missing from your screen using the Ctrl-H method. (Using Alt-E, then F to find text also obviates the very real danger of “replacing” your found text with “nothing” if you use Ctrl-H and aren’t careful about it, because using that method doesn’t activate a “replace” feature. The old-fashioned “replace” method was Alt-E, then E.)

I’m surprised that they made such an obvious error in an otherwise good writeup.

The rest of the advice works pretty well, though.

Here’s another tip:

If you’d like to make a “practice” document with a lot of text – and not have to write it yourself – you can easily do that in Word by typing
=rand( x, y) and then Enter, where X = # of paragraphs desired and Y = # of sentences desired per paragraph

When Word sees that command / phrasing, then it extracts already-written “actual text” from some Help screen (I’ve never bothered to check exactly where it comes from) and pastes that into your document. They used to do it with meaningless Lorem Ipsum gibberish, but I like the new “real English text” feature much better.

I so appreciate your answers you all. I’m going to climb Mount Everest.
I’m exhausted, without even trying it. I wish it were simpler.