Just an additional note to what Richard said. When moving around in a document, it is important to be able to know where your insertion point is. Whether you are moving by character, word, or line, by flicking down, you will move forward, or left to right, putting the insertion point to the right or end. And by flicking up, you will move backwards, or right to left, putting your insertion point to the left or beginning. For example, if you have the word, can, C A N, and your insertion point is at the beginning of the word to the left of the letter c. If you flick down one time moving by character, voice over will say c, and will move the insertion point one place to the right, which will be after the letter c, but before the letter A. If you flick down again, then voice over will say A, and will move the insertion point one place to the right, which will be after the letter A,, but before the letter n. So as you see, if you are moving left to right, the insertion point is to the right or after the letter spoken. Now, if you then flick up one time moving by character, then voice over will say A, moving the insertion point one place to the left, which will be before the letter A, but after the letter c. And if you flick up one more time, voice over will say c, moving the insertion point one place to the left, which will put you at the beginning of the word, before the letter c. So if you are moving backwards, right to left, the insertion point is to the left or before the letter spoken.
So depending on which way you are moving will determine what side of the letter the insertion point will be located. Without knowing this is probably one reason you got confused and were not having much luck when selecting text. Hope this has been helpful. Chris > On Dec 19, 2018, at 8:15 PM, Bill Outman <wout...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I know this sounds silly for having an iPhone for almost five years now, but > I seem to have forgotten a lot about editing text with it. > > I was working with an old item in Notes that I wanted to update, and had a > lot of trouble, having only occasional and accidental success. > > I can’t seem to determine consistently my insertion point, and only seem to > be able to delete charactersand select one word at a time, sometimes > accidentally. I can get the word cut and seem to be able to unselect it. > The text editing and edit menu seemed to be buried together in the rotor; > they used to be two separate items. I seem to be having trouble remembering > all the gestures I need to do all the cut copy, paste, and select commands. > > By the way, where is the iOS user guide? I’m using iOS 12. Is it somewhere > already on the phone or do I need to down load it into Books? > > Bill Outman > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
