Hi Alan, I found this with a google search: Select the words you want to cut or copy with the VoiceOver cursor by touching the line or flicking left or right. Rotate the VoiceOver rotor to either "words" or "lines." To rotate the VoiceOver rotor place two fingers on the screen and turn them left or right. If you select "lines" you will select one lines at a time and if you select "words" you will select one word at a time. Pinch out with two fingers to begin to select the words you want to cut or copy. VoiceOver will speak which words have been selected. Rotate the rotor to "edit" mode and then swipe up or down to hear all of the options. It will give you options such as cut, copy, paste, define and more depending on which app you are using. When you hear the option you want, double tap anywhere on the screen. Now you have copied the text. To paste the text navigate to a text box and then double tap and hold. Then swipe to navigate to the paste button and then double tap anywhere on the screen to paste the text. Apple says the following about cut, copy and past with VoiceOver. "Cut, copy, and paste comes to iPod touch. To bring up cut, copy, and paste options, use the rotor and choose Edit. Flick up or down to choose between the Select and Select All functions, then double tap. If you choose Select, the word closest to the insertion point is selected when you double tap. Pinch to increase or decrease the selection. If you choose Select All, the entire text is selected. When text is selected, cut, copy, and paste options appear on the screen. If you want to undo something, just give iPod touch a shake. You can also flick left or right to choose the undo action, then double tap."
On May 14, 6:03 pm, "Alan Lemly" <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm hoping one of you gurus can help me with this. I often want to copy text > from a message conversation or from an edit box, etc. in order to paste it > into another app. I can't figure out how to do this. I thought I'd turned on > almost every rotor option there is in the settings menu but I either don't > have one or am missing what I need to choose to do this. I know how to > select edit and copy or paste such as after I've used Fleksy to copy > something but I'm not getting how to select something myself in order to > copy it. > > Also, what is the easiest way to select partial text from within a group of > words such as part of a text message? I come from the Windows world where I > often use shift and the arrow keys to highlight and select characters for > copying and pasting. I realize without a keyboard that such a thing is > difficult with the iPhone but I'm hoping there is an alternative that > someone can explain to me. I believe someone may have mentioned something > about pinching text in order to select it but I'm struggling with how that > is done with very low vision. > > Thanks for any assistance you can provide. > > Alan Lemly -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
