Cutting and pasting - no better on N3

[anon8380037]

Does anyone else think being able to cut, copy and paste is an essential requirement when writing and emailing, and it doesn't work any better on a Note 3.

Could someone tell me if I'm doing it wrong?

I can move the start and end tabs to where I want them only occasionally. Mostly they won't go to the start or finish of the line I want. Can I use the S-Pen for this? Am I missing another trick?

Surely one of the big failings of Android. Is it easier on a large tablet. I don't know.

I keep boring people about my old phone before a GS2, but on the Sony-Ericsson P910i (8 between 2004 and 2011) I could type on a resistive screen keyboard with a small stylus, which was heaven.

Even better I could highlight exactly the text I wanted to cut and paste with that stylus. It was childs play. Why can't I glide the stylus or a finger from the start or end of text to highlight it, and ditch those silly tabs. Yes I do start holding text from the middle, but either end doesn't work either.

Any useful input welcome, but not from writers who never make a mistake, or who never need to re-compose a paragraph! Thanks.

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[dancing-bass]

I don't have a Note3, but i would imagine you should be able to use the S-pen. In fact as far as I know you can use the S-pen for anything you would use your finger for - and then some! I'm sure a few minutes digging around on Google would find you some S-pen tips and tricks, hints, and how-to's. I do feel your pain. Cut and paste is frustrating on my Gnex (No S-pen, 4.6" screen, and a tendancy to lag whenever copying and pasting... which makes trying to move the tabs by finger a irritating adventure at the best of times!!)

 

[kj11]

Have you tried drag and drop with the S-pen? Not sure what you're copying and pasting but I use it frequently to send text messages to multiple people

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[Isc73]

A few apps and texts may or may not allow you to copy them in the same way as most do

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[DrSavant]

Its a problem, and it was the same with the Note 2 - copying and pasting is very app dependent - some apps won't let you select text at all, or would screw up the selection completely.

The S-pen does NOT help in any way. It's a great tool for other things, but in many apps its just the way the software is designed. Potentially, with a non stock rom things might be better - ask on xda, or if anyone here is running something other than stock, please share.

To the OP - unfortunately, you are SOL.

To the ambassadors - guys, you are trying to help, but if you didn't use an S-pen, how does guessing help?

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[Unicorn11B]

The S pen only seems to help me because it's smaller and more precise. Other than that it's annoying as hell. I can't stand the start and stop tabs, I'd much rather be able to highlight the section of text I want to copy the way you said. Or, I'd be happy if the start and stop tabs were more able to be easily positioned. Even if I zoom in it doesn't help. I've found that I have to select a word of the block of text I want to copy, then move both beginning and ending tabs where I want them.

 

[violet182]

The spen can help! Just hold the button and draw a line through the text and it will select it. Took a bit of practice getting the timing right but works great in most apps.

 

[anon8380037]

Violet! Violet!

That's how I thought it might work before I bought it. I assumed the button was hijacked by the air stuff.

I'll have to wait a couple of hours before I can try it. Back to work.

I will give a few goes as you say.
I hope you are right.

Thanks either way. Tony.

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[int_architect]

The spen can help! Just hold the button and draw a line through the text and it will select it. Took a bit of practice getting the timing right but works great in most apps.

Many thanks. Worked for me but finicky. Also can select a word without pressing the button, but then you'd have to drag the word selection blocks or whatever they are.

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[kj11]

Never heard of this feature but I just tried it. It's called easy clip. Hold the bouton down and draw a closed shape around an object to select it. A tutorial will pop up to walk you through it.

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[anon8380037]

There definitely is something to this but I haven't quite perfected it yet.
It certainly helps make the blue tabs more stable and easy to position with the stylus if the blue highlight comes up. Not sure if it's meant to. It's getting the button timing righr, so still a work in progress but worth getting it right. It will try to create the scrapbook cut out image which is not what we want.
I'll get there. Time for bed here.

Just shows, us men are only as clever as our last beer!

Thanks again. Tony.

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[anon8380037]

@KJ

Don't you mean the scrapbook feature, which copies part of the screen as well?
I will look at it tomorrow. Cheers.

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[kj11]

@KJ

Don't you mean the scrapbook feature, which copies part of the screen as well?
I will look at it tomorrow. Cheers.

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No its something different, you can cut things out of web pages, emails, whatever and share them with several different apps. Give it a shot

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[kj11]

See my screen shot. You can slide the bar on the bottom to choose from pretty much any sharing/editing app to paste whatever you selected into.

It may not be a solution for the OP's copy/paste problem, but a pretty cool feature I was unaware of and may find some use for

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[anon8380037]

Oh, Ok. I got a screen like that yesterday and thought it was scrapbook. Again I have to wait to spend time on it later. Thanks for the trouble. I put the OP.

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[kj11]

Oh, Ok. I got a screen like that yesterday and thought it was scrapbook. Again I have to wait to spend time on it later. Thanks for the trouble. I put the OP.

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Thought that was you, but couldn't remember while I was mid reply.... Ha. The ? On the right of that little pop up menu gives you a nice walk through

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[anon8380037]

I can get the blue end tabs to where I want them much more obediently by using the holding the stylus on a word rather than my finger, so thats a leap forward, but I thought I was onto something else.

@kj11
I mainly wanted to cut a sentence or a series of words and move them to a different paragraph or delete them; rather than send an image somewhere else.

TBH I am a bit stylused out and it's been a strange week for me, so I will get the hang of it when I can give it more attention.

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[anon8380037]

@ DrSavant. Reading through all again and I love the SOL (easy to figure), never heard that before but I don't get out much.

Nice to hear the best of us had problems in this area. If you found Violet's contribution and tried it out, I would appreciate feedback. There is something to it, and its easier to locate the blue tabs anyway. I'm blowed if I can get myself to spend a lot of time with it as yet.

@int-architect, does it work for you?

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[DrSavant]

@Madd54 - that's what years in the military do to you The acronyms just stick

 

[JudH]

You might consider a different keyboard. Kii Keyboard for example has a dedicated cursor panel with select, select all, home, end and arrows that move the cursor one char plus cut, copy and paste keys. MUCH easier than the built-in method. Several keyboards I've tried had something similar.