Asus Nexus 7 - Manual (Page 56)

Nexus 7 Guidebook eNTeR & ediT TexT 50
To make the keyboard go away, touch the modified back but-
ton below it.
Basic editing
• Move the insertion point. Touch where you want to type.
The cursor blinks in the new position, and a blue tab appears
below it. drag the tab to move the cursor.
• Select text. Touch & hold or double-tap within the text.
The nearest word highlights, with a tab at each end of the se-
lection. drag the tabs to change the selection.
The tab disappears after a few moments. To make it reappear,
touch the text again.
• Delete text. Touch to delete selected text or the charac-
ters before the cursor.
• Type capital letters. Touch the shift key once to switch to capi-
tal letters for one letter.
or touch & hold shift key while you type. When you release
the key, the lowercase letters reappear.
• Turn caps lock on. double-tap or touch & hold shift key, so it
changes to . Touch shift key again to return to lowercase.
• Cut, copy, paste. select the text you want to manipulate. Then
touch Cut, Copy or Paste button: