for the Droid or 2.0 Please help here I am used to the iphone just hold down and you get a choice of highlighting all or some and you can drag to highlight then cut copy or past. All i can find in the droid is copy all cut all. Am I doing something wrong. By the way I love this phone this is just one area I have not mastered or maybe it has not been perfected as of yet.
If you open the keyboard and hold the shift key you can then touch the screen and drag to highlight the text you want to copy. and when you lift your finger the highlighted text will be automatically copied to the clipboard.
AFAIK, no, there isn't. It would be nice if there was a magnifying glass method like on the iPhone, because I thought that handled the copy-paste on touchscreen very well. Unfortunately, for now, the copy-paste is limited to text boxes and apps that allow it.
in the browser you can do menu/more/select text and it will copy whatever you highlight without using the keyboard.
How do you copy and paste a web page link on the Motorola Droid? For example, I find a web site I like, and want to paste it into an email. The hold shift and select text doesn't work in the URL field at the top of the browser. Thanks in advance for any solution!
Long press on the address bar in the browser and you'll have two options: share page / copy page url.
Best way to do this is to share the page because that will automaticly pasted it into and e-mail or other programs that are available.
Thanks for the tips on URL pasting...I guess when in doubt on the Droid, always "long press"! One more thing...is there any way to select text on a web page without dragging your finger? It's not very easy if you don't have small fingers or nails...isn't there some way with the directional pad on the keyboard?
i use the copy paste often and it does lack, but i get by! i notice it cuts letters out of words or whole words out of sentences! dear google FIX IT!
cut copy and paste - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum However it doesn't work very well for email (only highlights a line or two before it starts scrolling again). Hopefully Google is fixing this in Flan.
Can someone explain to me how to copy & paste something that takes up more space than the screen? If I hold shift and select the text on the screen I can't get it to scroll down to get more of the text. Is there something easy that I'm just missing?
Is similar vien... using the Yahoo Messenger can you save part or all of converstion? Cut/Paste would be ok as well... I cant get it to work... my new android phone is great, but this appears to be a big weakness... the entire cut/paste issue...even my old Window Mobile phone could do this with ease.
