Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to content cut-and-paste operations and provide a method, system and computer program product for cutting and pasting content from a source document to a target document. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for cutting and pasting content from a source document to a target document can include selecting multiple non-contiguous segments of content in a source document rendered in an activated application executing in a host computing platform, designating from within the activated application for each of the non-contiguous segments, an inactive target application in the host computing platform, and pasting the selected multiple non-contiguous segments of content into a target document rendered in the inactive target application while maintaining focus in the activated application and without activating the inactive target application.