There are five barrel-rifling methods in general use: cut, button, broach, hammer forging and ECM (electrolytic cationic machining). All have their benefits.

You can perform a cut on selected text by pressing "Control-X" or clicking the "Cut" button on the Home tab in Microsoft Word. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad. Copy.

Tap the "Cut" button that now appears in the pop-up menu. The highlighted text is removed from the document and is saved to the clipboard. If you don't want to remove the text, select "Copy" instead.