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Silly Q, how do you select text from an email? And other places...
it keeps thinking I want to scroll the page...

and in list boxes I can't use calligrapher at all!
 
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Silly Q, how do you select text from an email? And other places...
it keeps thinking I want to scroll the page...

and in list boxes I can't use calligrapher at all!
From an Email, you press and hold your finger on the screen and a list of options should appear, choose Make Selection and then you can drag your finger along what you want to copy, once you selected that press and hold again and cut/copy and then hold to paste in.

For text messages, you press and hold your finger on the screen until you get two icon/cursors. You move the cursors along so it highlights what text is between the two cursors. Tap what you want to do etc.

For other programs I'm not sure sorry.
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For text messages, you press and hold your finger on the screen until you get two icon/cursors. You move the cursors along so it highlights what text is between the two cursors. Tap what you want to do etc.
Is it possible to make this method available in emails and webbrowsing?
 
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Is it possible to make this method available in emails and webbrowsing?
I'm very interested in this too. Apparently it is possible, but I cannot find a way or a discussion in which it's explained how.
 
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From an Email, you press and hold your finger on the screen and a list of options should appear, choose Make Selection and then you can drag your finger along what you want to copy, once you selected that press and hold again and cut/copy and then hold to paste in.

For text messages, you press and hold your finger on the screen until you get two icon/cursors. You move the cursors along so it highlights what text is between the two cursors. Tap what you want to do etc.

For other programs I'm not sure sorry.
Thanks, great knowledge :)

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