You put your fingers on the phone and pinch them together to select, and pull them apart to deselect. It takes a lot of practice, but it can be done.
Jenn -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tara Prakash Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 12:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Editing text in iPhone Okay thanks. Can you explain pinch gesture. I wrote some thing which I want to paste to other edit fields. What exactly do I need to do? Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennie Facer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 1:29 PM Subject: RE: Editing text in iPhone > You have to use the pinch gesture to select text first of all. Than you > use > your roter and go to edit. Here, you flick down to choose what you want to > do. > > Hope this helps, > > Jenn > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Tara Prakash > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 10:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Editing text in iPhone > > I remember it is possible to cut copy and paste text from edit field. Can > you please let me know how? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 11:01 AM > Subject: Re: Editing text in iPhone > > > Hi, first set your rotor to characters. Now, in short, if you swipe > down, you are moving forward. If you swipe up, you are moving backward. > Your cursor is landing between the letters. So, if you have the first 7 > letters of the alphabet, abcdefg, and you swipe down until you hear c, > that means your cursor is between c and d. If you double-tap delete, you > will delete the letter c because you are moving forward and c is the > last letter you heard. Now, again, taking abcdefg and let's say you are > swiping up and the last letter you heard was b, that means your cursor > is between a and b. This is because you are moving backwards and the > last letter you heard was b, so this time if you press delete, the > letter a will be deleted. > > Also, check the archives of this list as this topic was discussed > recently. Maybe they will help with a better explanation. > > Good luck. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > America: a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the > other half is spent trying to lose weight. > Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 > > > On 6/18/2012 8:25 AM, Lea Langley wrote: >> Hi all, I have trouble with the delete part of editing. I never can seem >> to get the cursor in the right place to delete the right character. I >> would really appreciate some help on this. Thank you so much for >> everything to all of you on the list. God bless, Wren >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jun 17, 2012, at 6:39 PM, hunter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Should I do a recording of me editing text on my I touch and or iPad? >>> Editing on any iOS device works the same. If so, I will in a few days >>> when I get back to the place where I left my recorder. This is >>> assuming that nothing comes up, and y'all want a recording. Oh yes, >>> I'm typing this on the screen of my iPad. LOL. >>> >>> David Chittenden wrote: >>>> Yep, anything is a royal pain until you practice and get good at it. I >>>> do most of my writing on my iPhone, even the initial drafts of my >>>> research papers. >>>> >>>> >>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA >>>> Email: [email protected] >>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On 17/06/2012, at 11:36, "Rose Combs" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Well, I don't do a lot of it because I don't write long messages on >>>>> the > >>>>> phone, but I do know that control C and control V still work as they >>>>> do > >>>>> in Windows. Sorry, I just do not use the phone for a writing tool and >>>>> one reason is because editing is a royal pain, if I ever get Siri >>>>> things might change but then maybe not. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>>>> Behalf Of Tom Lange >>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:10 AM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: Editing text in iPhone >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> How do you do text selecttion with a bluetooth keyboard, and by what >>>>> units of text can you select? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> Tom >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: Rose Combs >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 9:26 AM >>>>> Subject: RE: Editing text in iPhone >>>>> >>>>> The edit function and cut and paste on the phone itself is junk, said >>>>> from someone who much prefers using a keyboard when needing to edit >>>>> where ctrl v and c work and where deleting works with separate keys so >>>>> you know exactly if you are going the right direction. I very much >>>>> hate editing on the phone itself, if Vokul makes a mistake, in fact, I >>>>> just leave it there, and if I make a horrible on typing I just delete >>>>> the whole thing and try again. I don't do lengthy messages or e-mail >>>>> on the phone, only mail I get is to send phone numbers to the address >>>>> connected to the phone because reading e-mail on the phone is not for >>>>> me at least a pleasant experience. I have lots of uses for the phone >>>>> but editing, cutting and pasting are not among them unless I am bored >>>>> and feel I have nothing else to do. >>>>> >>>>> I like the phone and it goes everywhere with me but those functions >>>>> and > >>>>> the rotors are my least favorite. Practice in those cases does not >>>>> make perfect, just frustration. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>>>> Behalf Of Chuck Dean >>>>> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 2:01 PM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: Editing text in iPhone >>>>> >>>>> Yes, as above, make sure you are going in the right direction. >>>>> >>>>> When I first got my iPhone I thought the edit function was junk until >>>>> I > >>>>> realized my mistake. >>>>> Chuck >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 1:49:54 PM UTC-7, Rahul Bajaj wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I often get really confused when I try to edit the text that I've >>>>> typed. >>>>> For example, when I want to edit a text message, I swipe down with one >>>>> finger and VO reads the text character by character. >>>>> Now, if I want to delete a character, I double tap the delete >>>>> button. >>>>> So, sometimes the character that VO last spoke gets deleted and at >>>>> other times the character which was immediately before the character >>>>> that VO last spoke gets deleted. >>>>> So, how exactly does this work? >>>>> Let's say I've made a spelling mistake and have written my name as R A >>>>> H O U L instead of R A H U L. >>>>> So, where should I press the delete button to delete the O? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance for your assistance. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Rahul >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>>>> Google Group. >>>>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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