Quote from: JohnDoeGotDough on May 06, 2016, 12:31:03 AM

I am new to everything bitcoin pretty much. I have installed Electrum and thats about as far as I got. I am trying to make a transaction to an address I need to send bitcoins to. My question is, how do I put the BTC from my paper wallet into an electrum wallet and then send those BTC to the address I need to send it to. Anything will help, thanks for your time.

Regards, JD

The paper wallet should contain a private key.
If the private key is bip38 encrypted, you might need to decrypt it by downloading the sourcecode from https://www.bitaddress.org and going to "wallet details"
Once you have an unencrypted private key, go to electrum, go to wallet => private keys => sweep, enter your private key, and sweep your paper wallet.

TBH: it's possible electrum can even decrypt the private key for you... you might want to try this first before using bitaddress.org, i just never tried, and i don't want to sweep my paper wallets just to try it out.

Once your private key is swept, it should be as easy as going to the send-tab in electrum and entering an ammount and an address.