Difficulty in editing sections of clips

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Win 7 64 bit - Audacity 2.1.1

I have problems when trying to copy or delete a secion of a clip. First I pause then select the piece which becomed hightlighted. But the copy/delete is greyed out until you stop. But when you stop the highlighted section disappears. If you stop first the cursor goes right back to the start?

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Use “Stop and set cursor” (Shift + A) rather than “Stop”.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/transport_menu.html#set

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Thanks. Very helpful