Working With Text - HTC One max User Manual

43 Your first week with your new phone

Working with text

Selecting, copying, and pasting text
In HTC apps such as Internet 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, go to
Settings > Accessibility, and then select the Show magnifier option. You'll see the magnifier
when you press and hold 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 in the Internet app, 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.
§ Word prediction also saves typing time. As you type, you'll see word suggestions that you can
choose from. You can even add words, phrases, and shortcuts to the word prediction
dictionary. See Entering text with word prediction
§ You can type words by just speaking. See
§ 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
§ Just swipe right to access the numeric and symbol keyboard. Or swipe left to switch between
languages.
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Entering text by speaking
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