Tips For Editing Text - Motorola Moto G User Manual

Tips for Editing Text

You can cut, copy, and paste names, phone numbers, addresses, quotes, or anything else in a text
box. You can cut, copy and paste within the same message or between apps.
You use the icons at the top of an app screen or select screen options that guide you when you touch
the typed words in your message.
Tip: Touch and hold icons to show their description label.
To...
Enter alternate characters
Enter one capital letter
Enter only capital letters
Select text
Cut or Copy selected text
Move the cursor
Paste cut or copied text
Double letters:
Adding words to the dictionary from
your text
Delete a character
Phone Basics
Touch and hold the letter to enter its associated number,
or touch to enter numbers or
Touch and touch the letter.
Touch twice and type. Touch again to return to
typing lowercase.
Double tap a word to select it. To select more than one
word drag the cursors on each side of the selected word
to either end of the text. To select all words, touch
Select text and then choose Cut or
copy text from one app to another.
Touch a spot in the text you have typed to place the
cursor, then drag the arrow under the cursor to move it.
Touch and hold location to paste, then touch Paste or .
When entering text using a gesture instead of typing,
circle a letter to enter two of them.
You can add an often used word to the dictionary. As you
enter a word, it appears in the word list below the text
entry box. Double-tap the word in the word list to add it to
your dictionary.
Touch Delete.
Instructions
=\< to enter symbols.
Copy. You can
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