Working With Text - HTC Desire 600 User Manual

37 Your first week with your new phone

Working with text

Selecting, copying, and pasting text
In apps such as the web browser and Mail, 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.
You can use the magnifier to zoom in while selecting your text. To turn on the
magnifier, slide the Notifications panel open, tap
the Show magnifier option. You'll see the magnifier when you tap one of the text
selection anchors.
3. After you have selected the text you want to copy, tap Copy.
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 Paste.
To copy the address of a linked webpage, press and hold the link, and then tap
Copy link URL.
Sharing text
1. After you have selected the text you want to share, tap Share.
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.
§ Turn on the Trace keyboard so you can type words by just sliding your finger
from one letter to another. See
§ You can type words by just speaking. See
41.
> Accessibility, and then select
Using the Trace keyboard
Entering text by speaking
on page 40.
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