How do I cut and paste

I have just bought an apple having previously owned windows based computers. And was wondering if anyone can advice how you cut and paste things within social networking sites. It would appear I can not do it the same way as windows. Not sure why. I have not tried doing anything in word or excel yet.

This may be good information for cut, copy, and paste functions within a program that uses text or pictures within documents but not good advice for simple file management....
It is important to me that I maintain files without using up space by having duplicate files in multiple locations, ie. same file name with same contents under another parent file with differing name. I want to move multiple files from one parent file to another parent file that may contain the same file name. Upon doing so, I should get a pop up window that states I am trying to move a file with the same name to this new location that already contains a file with the same name and what do I want to do with it? Stop, Merge, Overwrite, etc. I would say stop because I want to verify if they are indeed the same contents and to continue with the moving of files for those that do not have a conflict. When all is said and done, I should only have those files left in the original parent file that had a conflict and all the others should have successfully moved to the new location parent file.
This is not the case with Mac. When I try this procedure, FIRST there is no CUT command using the command and mouse (right click) menu. SECOND if I selct all files in the parent file (command 'a') and drag to the new file location, I get all the previously mentioned options about files with the same names but when its done, I find that the files were only copied and not cut from their original location file. This makes it impossible to know which files are indeed duplicates since everything was left behind in the original parent file location.
What is the Darn answer??!! Don't tell me Apple was so stupid not to create a function that does this as all Windows based computers do.

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