Cut + Paste on Droid X?

[blgoldberg]

I'm new to Droid X and smart phones in general. Biggest hope is to be able to cut and paste on my phone, mostly g-mail messages. (Would be great to know how to cut + paste text messages too.) Is this possible for a novice like me?

 

[Martimus]

Welcome to the Android Forums!

Cut/Paste is available in Android 2.2 on the Droid X but it's not really all that mature of a feature yet. Check out the following links for more information...

http://androidforums.com/droid-x-support-troubleshooting/126794-droid-x-cut-paste.html
Cut, Copy and Paste Text - Motorola DROID X MB810

 

[blgoldberg]

That was a helpful link, thanks. Maybe I'm doing something wrong: from the instructions provided by Verizon, it looks like I can only copy and paste the subject line of an e-mail, rather than the text in the body of the e-mail. I really need to be able to copy the text in body of the e-mail. Any suggestions for doing that?

 

[Steven58]

Welcome to Android Forums! PM me if you need help getting around!

Steven

 

[Martimus]

That was a helpful link, thanks. Maybe I'm doing something wrong: from the instructions provided by Verizon, it looks like I can only copy and paste the subject line of an e-mail, rather than the text in the body of the e-mail. I really need to be able to copy the text in body of the e-mail. Any suggestions for doing that?

I'd have thought that you should be able to long press on that area of text. It seems to work OK when I do that to the main text box on my Droid X. I long press and it gives me a menu with numerous options to choose such as "Select all", "Select text", "Cut all", "Copy all", etc.

 

[blgoldberg]

Had my teenage son try it too and it didn't work for him either so.... I think my next stop is the Verizon store. Much thanks for your help!