Hi Jed, The pinch gesture is what sighted people use, you put two fingers on the screen so they are touching and then slowly spread them apart (away from each other horizontally). As you spread your fingers apart text will get selected based on whatever rotor unit is set, e.g. by character, by word or by line. Before Apple made it possible to select text by character, word, line or all using the "Text Selection" rotor item, this was the only way to select text unless you wanted to "Select All" which was always an option. However, if you are having problems with a left rotor turn I wouldn't even try because it's a difficult gesture at the least and many people on the list had problems with it when it was the only way to select just a portion of text. Anyhow, you apparently do want to select all text so there is no point to try and use that. As I said, if you could maybe back up and explain again what app the text you want to copy and paste is in it would maybe help. There are so many one-liner emails in this thread now that it's hard to find much. I also suggest you go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Voiceover and practice your rotor turns in the practice area. By the way, somebody mentioned that maybe "Edit" wasn't added in the rotor settings. The rotor settings are also in Voiceover settings and there is a rotor button, however, edit is not an item you can add as it is automatically there or not depending on that context. If you are somewhere text can be selected, copied or pasted it is there. The "Text Selection" rotor item, however, which was introduced in iOS 9 and which allows you to set a movement unit like characters, words, lines, page or select all is however an item you have to first add to the rotor before it is available. You do this by going to Voiceover Settings > Rotor, then find it and make sure it is "selected". You can double tap each rotor item to select or deselect it. Once available you can place your insertion point at the beginning of the text you want to select, then turn the rotor to "Text Selection", then flick up or down with one finger to select the unit (characters, words, lines, page or select all) and then flick right to select text. If, for example you set it to words and then flick right Voiceover will read out the text word by word and as it reads each word that word is selected. Once you have selected all you want you turn the rotor to Edit, flick up or down to "Copy" and double tap to copy the selected text to the clipboard.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jed Barton Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 7:25 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: cutting and pasting text perhaps you meant the word and. Well, it's still nto copying the text from the original file. It only seems to be copying the 1st 2 letters. When i paste it in, i just see the 1st 2 letters of this file showing up. The 1st word in the file is the word let, and just the l and the E are showing up when i paste. I am beyond frustrated guys, this makes no sense at all. On 7/10/2016 8:42 AM, Alan Lemly wrote: > Jed, > > To paste the text you copied into a new note, try single finger double > tapping ant then holding on that second tap. You do this anywhere on the > screen where the new note is. A pop up menu should appear above where you > tapped and one of its horizontal menu choices should be paste which you can > select and double tap. > > Good luck. > > Alan Lemly > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 10, 2016, at 12:16 AM, Jed Barton <jedbar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> i just can't flick left, it goes all over the sc reen, my gesture is >> horrible, i'm right handed, which is rhy i probably flick better right, but >> i see no edit at all when i flick right which makes no sense at all. >> >>> On 7/10/2016 1:04 AM, Eleanor burke wrote: >>> I always do my rotor to the left my first option is language and my second >>> option is edit. >>> >>>> On 9 Jul 2016, at 20:24, Jed Barton <jedbar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Still no go, can you be more detailed? I went into the notes app, >>>> did the roter and there is no edit option >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>>> On Jul 9, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Eleanor burke <eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Touch your finger on the screen before you activate the rotor and then >>>>> the edit will come up. then swipe down with one finger until you get >>>>> paste. that might mean you swiping down with one finger and number of >>>>> times. >>>>> >>>>>> On 9 Jul 2016, at 19:52, Jed Barton <jedbar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok so i copied the text, now the problem is pasting it in the >>>>>> notes app >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jul 9, 2016, at 2:29 PM, 'RobH.' via VIPhone >>>>>>> <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> the original text file needs to be in an editing mode for the edit >>>>>>> rotor feature to appear. At least, that's how it used to work. >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>>> From: "Jed Barton" <jedbar...@gmail.com> >>>>>>> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2016 6:44 PM >>>>>>> Subject: Re: cutting and pasting text >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> i don't see edit at all in my roter, any idea why, or how to add it? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 7/9/2016 1:24 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: >>>>>>>> Once you have the file open in the Dropbox app you should be >>>>>>>> able to turn the rotor to "Edit", then flick up or down with >>>>>>>> one finger until you find "Select All", double tap at that point. Now >>>>>>>> open whatever app you want to paste the text to, turn the rotor to >>>>>>>> edit again and flick up or down until you find "Paste" then double tap. >>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>> Sieghard >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com >>>>>>>> [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jed Barton >>>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2016 9:51 AM >>>>>>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>>>>>>> Subject: cutting and pasting text >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hey guys, >>>>>>>> OK, i need some help here, just cause i haven't done it. I >>>>>>>> have a text file that i wrote in notepad in the PC, and it is >>>>>>>> saved to dropbox. 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