Cut, copy, and paste information, Use the copy all or select all feature, Use the copy all or select all – Palm Pixi Plus User Manual
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Tap the currently displayed option to open the list. For example, when
creating a new event in Calendar, tap 15 minutes before to display the
list of reminder options.
2
Tap the list item you want.
Cut, copy, and paste information
You can copy any selectable text, and you can cut any selectable text that
you yourself entered, for example, in a memo or an email. This includes text
you can select by dragging the cursor and paragraphs you can select by
tapping them (see
).
1
Select the text you want to cut or copy (see
).
2
Open the
and tap Edit > Cut or Copy.
3
Open the app and insert the cursor where you want to paste the text
(see
).
4
Open the
and tap Edit > Paste.
Use the Copy All or Select All feature
Some applications offer a Copy All menu option. For example, in Messaging,
you can start or open a conversation, open the
, and tap
Edit > Copy All. This saves the entire conversation as plain text, which you
can paste in a memo, email message, and so on.
Other apps offer a Select All menu option. For example, in Memos, you can
open a memo, open the
, and tap Edit > Select All. This
highlights the full memo text, which you can cut or copy.
Some apps offer both the Copy All and Select All features to perform
different text selection tasks:
Email: In an open email message in Email, use Copy All to copy the entire
message (including header info such as sender, recipient, and subject), or
use Select All to select just the message body text (see
).
Contacts: On the contact details screen, use Copy All to copy the contents
of the contact entry as plain text; or, on the contact edit screen, insert the
cursor in a field and use Select All to highlight the contents of that field.
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You can also use keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy, and paste. After
selecting the text or inserting the cursor, press and hold the gesture area until
a light appears under the surface of the gesture area, and press X (cut), C
(copy), V (paste), or A (copy/select all, in apps that support this feature).