Is there a better way to copy and paste?

[goosepilot]

selecting text to copy by using shift + finger is like trying to eat your cereal using a backhoe. Is there anything that uses a curser like my BB?

 

[mjs31]

You can use the pull out keyboard and use the d pad to select your items. Also, many of the secondary keyboards (smart keyboard pro etc.) have arrow options now. Just a four way arrow similar to what the d pad would do. Basically you select copy and then select a starting point with you finger. From there you can use the arrows to better select what you want or deselect what was highlighted..

I agree that the copy and paste needs an overhaul of some sort. Just not user friendly.

 

[Flomaster]

selecting text to copy by using shift + finger is like trying to eat your cereal using a backhoe. Is there anything that uses a curser like my BB?

if you are using SWYPE you can go into a select text menu its freaking AMAZING!

 

[goosepilot]

You can use the pull out keyboard and use the d pad to select your items. Also, many of the secondary keyboards (smart keyboard pro etc.) have arrow options now. Just a four way arrow similar to what the d pad would do. Basically you select copy and then select a starting point with you finger. From there you can use the arrows to better select what you want or deselect what was highlighted..

I agree that the copy and paste needs an overhaul of some sort. Just not user friendly.

How do you use the d pad to select? I tried selecting some text from a web page and the pad just scrolled the page around and the same when I tried to select some text from handcent. Nearly impossible to select what I want.

 

[superglen99]

from the browser and some apps you can hit menu and choose select text then simply run your finger arcross the text you wanna copy like you would with a mouse on a computer

 

[bogdan912]

Long press what you want to copy, then click copy
Long press where you want to paste, then click paste(the on screen keyboard must be open though)

 

[Brokn68]

selecting text to copy by using shift + finger is like trying to eat your cereal using a backhoe. Is there anything that uses a curser like my BB?

if you are using SWYPE you can go into a select text menu its freaking AMAZING!

+1 on this, it's a real treat to use.

 

[backlash]

I discovered the copy feature that swype has a few weeks ago, for me, it works so much better than anything else I've tried.

 

[gprichardson1]

I must be missing something. Where do I find that select text menu in Swype? Been trying everything to no avail. Even checked out the help for Swype and can't see it mentioned anywhere.

Thanks!

 

[goosepilot]

So if I understand correctly, there is no real way to copy stuff. Trying to copy text from sms I cant zoom and my finger is as big as 4 lines of text. Most of the time it starts to select, but then it starts scrolling the page, very frustrating. Or if you zoom a web page in enough to accurately select then you have to scroll left-right and down while selecting which doesn't work either.
I have not tried swype, but am reluctant to spend money on something that I don't know if it will do what I want. Just seems silly to have to spend money on something that should be standard equipment

 

[Flomaster]

I must be missing something. Where do I find that select text menu in Swype? Been trying everything to no avail. Even checked out the help for Swype and can't see it mentioned anywhere.

Thanks!

Swype from the button left swype key to the SYM key
to get the large numbers keyboard Swype from the swype button to the F/G/H keys

-=Jason=-