Cut,copy and paste functions using the mouse

Hi.
I'm a new mac owner and have read that I should be able to do the above. Is that correct, and if so how can I get my mouse to cut, copy and paste text. I can do it through edit but am unable to do so by right clicking.
Thanks for any help in advance.

Works fine in TextEdit and Pages - select text by clicking-and-holding and dragging the mouse across it, releasing, then right or control-clicking to bring up the contextual menu which includes these functions. (If you just right-click in TextEdit it will highlight just that word and bring up the menu). It doesn't work in, for example, Safari when entering text as in this forum or reading a web page.

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start to approach this task.
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map short-cut keys to them.
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