Just like with a regular computer, you can select text to copy, cut, and paste it in another location. When selecting text, you have three choices: select a single word, select all of your text, or just select part of your text.
After you select text, you can delete it by tapping the Backspace key, or you can cut or copy the selected text to paste it somewhere else.
You can select a single word in two ways. First, you can tap a word twice to select it. Second, you can hold your finger on a word for a moment and then release. When a menu appears, tap Select. To try selecting a single word, follow these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Notes. The Notes screen appears.
Type a sentence of text.
Tap a word twice. Your chosen word appears highlighted, as shown in Figure 5-7, along with a Cut, Copy, Paste, and Replace menu. At this point, you can tap Cut or Copy to cut or copy your selected text.
Press your fingertip over another word, and lift your finger off the screen. Notice that a Paste menu now appears.
Tap Select. (If you tap Select All, you’ll select all the text.) Your chosen word appears selected, and a Cut, Copy, Paste, Replace menu appears. At this point, you can tap Cut or Copy to cut or copy your selected text.
Normally the virtual keyboard only selects entire words. However, you may want to select just part of a word, which you can do by following these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Notes. The Notes screen appears.
Type a sentence of text.
Tap any word twice. Your chosen word appears highlighted along with beginning and ending markers; each marker appears as a vertical line with a circle on the top or bottom of the line.
Hold your finger on one of the vertical lines, and slide your finger to select more or less text, as shown in Figure 5-8.
Lift your finger when you’ve selected all the text you want. At this point you can tap Cut or Copy to cut or copy your selected text.
After you have selected and cut or copied your selected text, you can paste it in a new location. To see how to cut, copy, and paste text, follow these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Notes. The Notes screen appears.
Type a sentence of text.
Tap any word twice to select it and display the Cut, Copy, and Replace menu.
Tap Cut or Copy. (If you tap Cut, your selected text disappears. If you tap Copy, your selected text remains.)
Hold your fingertip on a different part of your text to position the cursor. The magnifying glass appears to let you see where the cursor appears.
Lift your finger off the screen. A Select, Select All, and Paste menu appears.
Tap Paste. Your previously cut or copied text appears at the cursor’s location. Note that you can even copy and paste to and from different applications. For example, you might copy the recipe from a web page in Safari into an email message to your aunt in Mail.