Palm Pre P100EWW - Manual (Page 31)

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2 Tap the list item you want.
Cut, copy, and paste information
You can copy any selectable text, and you can cut any selectable text that
you yourself entered, for example, in a memo or an email. This includes text
you can select by dragging the cursor and paragraphs you can select by
tapping them (see
Text selection gestures ).
1 Select the text you want to cut or copy (see Text selection gestures ).
2 Open the application menu and tap Edit > Cut or Copy .
3 Open the app and insert the cursor where you want to paste the text
(see
Text selection gestures ).
4 Open the application menu and tap Edit > Paste .
Use the Copy All or Select All feature
Some applications offer a Copy All menu option. For example, in Messaging,
you can start or open a conversation, open the
application menu , and tap
Edit > Copy All . This saves the entire conversation as plain text, which you
can paste in a memo, email message, and so on.
Other apps offer a Select All menu option. For example, in Memos, you can
open a memo, open the
application menu , and tap Edit > Select All . This
highlights the full memo text, which you can cut or copy.
Some apps offer both the Copy All and Select All features to perform
different text-selection tasks:
• Email: In an open email message in Email, use Copy All to copy the entire
message (including header info such as sender, recipient, and subject), or
use Select All to select just the message body text.
• Contacts: On the contact details screen, use Copy All to copy the
contents of the contact entry as plain text; or, on the contact edit screen,
insert the cursor in a field and use Select All to highlight the contents of
that field.
Save information
• On most screens, your information is saved automatically. Just make the
back gesture to close the screen (see
Go up one level in an app (back
gesture) ), and your info is saved at the same time.
• Your info is also saved if you minimize an app screen to a card and throw
the card off the top of the screen to close the app.
• On screens with a Done button, tap Done to save your information.
TIP You can also use keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy, and paste. After selecting
the text or inserting the cursor, press and hold the gesture area until a light appears
under the surface of the gesture area, and press
X (cut), C (copy), V (paste), or A
(copy/select all, in the apps that support this feature).