HTC One M9 - Manual (Page 50)

Working with text
Selecting, copying, and pasting text
In HTC apps such as Mail and Messages, you can select and copy text, and then paste or share it.
1. Press and hold on a word.
2. Drag the start and end anchors to highlight the surrounding text you want to select.
3. After you have selected the text you want to copy, tap .
The selected text is then copied to the clipboard.
4. In a text entry field (for example while composing an email), press and hold at the point
where you want to paste the text.
5. Tap or Paste.
Sharing text
1. After you have selected the text you want to share, tap .
2. Choose where to paste and share the selected text, such as in an email message or social
network status update.
The HTC Sense keyboard
Typing is fast and accurate with the HTC Sense keyboard.
§ Word prediction also saves typing time. As you type, you'll see word suggestions that you can
choose from. You can even add words to the word prediction dictionary. See
Entering text
with word prediction on page 52.
§ You can type words by just speaking. See Entering text by speaking on page 53.
§ Turn on the Trace keyboard so you can type words by just sliding your finger from one letter
to another. See
Using the Trace keyboard on page 53.
§ Just swipe right to access the numeric and symbol keyboard. Or swipe left to switch between
languages.
§ The keys have secondary numbers, punctuation symbols, or other characters that you can
insert without having to switch to the numeric and symbol keyboard.
For example, just press and hold a key on the first row to insert a number.
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