what happened to the cut/paste ability of the forum contents? This was available in the past, often times with usefull infomation I liked to cut/copy it into a word doc???
I don't get it either. What are you unable to do? I can highlight anything and then copy/paste it. You can also quote a message and it will copy the text of it into your reply.
Are you referring to a forum-specific cut/copy/paste function, like a set of buttons? Or aren't you able to do these commands via mouse (right-click on the selected text) or keyboard?
For PCs:
Ctrl-X - cut
Ctrl-C - copy
Ctrl-V - paste
For Macs, replace the Ctrl with the Apple/command button.