Ok, let me turn the question round; is anyone else using the new rii mini BT keyboard able to do this method of text selection?
I heard of one or two having flaky resulst with it ono ther things. R! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ioana Gandrabur" <igandra...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Text Editing on iOS Do you have dedicated arrow keys or do you have to press fn +a letter? I this case shift +arrows might not work.Best, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Oct 29, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Rob Harris <bobs...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I have one of the new RII mini BT and been fiddling for ages and can't get > to select text using the keyboard. I think shift and the arrow keys was > the > last thing mentioned; still nothing. > > This is getting too frustrating. > > R! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ioana Gandrabur" <igandra...@gmail.com> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 5:25 AM > Subject: Re: Text Editing on iOS > > > How about using notes? You can do bold italic there and selecting and > moving > text works fine with bt keyboard. > Best, > > Ioana > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 28, 2012, at 9:24 PM, "Joe" <jsoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Rob, >> >> I guess it is kind of contradicting to want plain text and then request >> bold, etc. LOL I'm about to start taking an hour and a half commute each >> way >> to work, and I'd like to find a productive means of spending my three >> hours >> on the road. Editing documents is one way, and while I understand there >> is >> currently no means of editing Doc or DOCX files, I'd like to see about >> the >> next best alternative. Esther's message earlier about an RTF editor was >> promising, but I'd prefer not have to get an iPad just to accomplish some >> productive document editing. At minimum, I'd like an efficient means of >> manipulating blocks of text from within the same file or between two >> files. >> >> Thanks all for any additional thoughts. >> >> Joe >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf >> Of Rob Harris >> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 10:05 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Text Editing on iOS >> >> You want a minimal word processor; those markup tokens only complicate >> and >> to me, corrupt the notion of Plain Text. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joe" <jsoro...@gmail.com> >> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:54 PM >> Subject: Text Editing on iOS >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> As a follow-up to the recent thread on RTF editors that synchronize with >> Dropbox, do any of the plain text apps allow for at least some minimal >> formatting such as bold, underline, tab positions, etc.? >> >> >> >> Also, what is the text selection process with a bluetooth keyboard? I >> have >> an Apple keyboard, and I'd like to be able to select blocks of text. Am I >> correct that this works with a combination of arrow keys and the Command >> key? >> >> >> >> Thanks for any information. >> >> >> >> Joe >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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