Hi Jed, OK, I did find where you originally said you wanted to copy the contents from a text file in Dropbox to your clibpoard and then paste it into a note in the iOS Notes app. I tried to recreate this by opening a text file in my Dropbox app. It does indeed seem exceedingly difficult (of course it shouldn't be) to copy the text. I also had no "Edit" item on the rotor at first. I tried all sorts of stuff like double tapping on the note, trying to use the "Share" button at the top right and use "Add to Notes", but that only creates a note with an attachment. I assume theoretically this would do what you want except you have to open the attachment as the text is not in the Note itself, but in the attachment. Anyhow, I don't know what iPhone you hae, but using 3D touch on the text does seem to bring up a "Select All" option which however didn't really seem to work. The short of it is that at some point after doing the force touch I did suddenly have an Edit item in my rotor and I was then able to flick to Select All and Copy. Interestingly enough the "Text Selection" item is in the rotor when I first open the text file, but if I flick to "Select All" it does not seem to work, if I use Word or Line selection and select a few rods/lines I can then turn the rotor to edit and select copy, if I use select all in the text selection and then go to Edit the only two options I have are "Select All" and "Select" and double tapping on either one does not do anything or allow me to find "Copy". All in all it's very inconsistent although I guess if your text is not too long you could select it word by word or line by line. What I don't understand is why there isn't a simple "Copy to Clibboard" or "Pasteboard" as Apple calls I t option in the "Share" menu. Of course I should also mention that I am using the iOS 10 Public Beta so it is possible that some of this strange behavior is because it's just Public Beta 1, maybe in iOS 9 using the "Select All" in the Text Selection rotor item works just fine, somebody would have to try it. Lastly, why do you want to copy this text to a Note if you already have it in your Dropbox? If you want to have it always available just make it available Offline in Dropbox and it will be there on your iPhone just as a note would be.
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