Hi Bill, I suggest you go to www.IBlindTech.com and listen to Garth's Podcast about selecting, copying and pasting text. I can't remember which number it is, but it is called very similar to what I just put here, Selecting, Copying and Pasting Text, so it should be easy to find. Doing this is one of the more tricky gestures and involves using 2 fingers which you place in the middle of the screen close together and then you move them apart horizontally. It is called a "Pinch Out" gesture and if, for example, you turn the rotor to Words, the text you want to select in Your Messages app will be selected word by word as you increase the distance between your fingers. If you get to the edge of the screen and not all the text has been selected you can repeat the gesture. When you are done you now turn the rotor to Edit, then flick down with one finger until you hear "Copy", then double tap. Your selected text has now been copied to the Clibboard. You next would open the Mail app, address the message and then in the body field once again turn the rotor to Edit, then flick down until you get to Paste and double tap.
Another, easier way which often works well in iOS 7 is to use the new 4-finger quadruple tap. This gesture copies the last spoken text to the Clipboard, Voiceover actually calls it "Pastboard". You would just touch the message you want to copy, let Voiceover read it completely and then immediately after it finishes do a 4-finger quadruple tap. Then go to your Mail app, start a message and do what I described above which is to turn the rotor to Edit, flick down to Paste and double tap. One thing this method does is that it also pastes things Voiceover says like "link" or "button". For example, assume you have an email with a phone number or hyperlink and Voiceover reads the number followed by "phone number detected or the link followed by "link detected". If you do a 4-finger quadruple tap and then paste the number or link into another email, Voiceover would also paste the text "Phone Number Detected" or "link detected" and you would have to delete this again if all you wanted was the phone number or link. But this is still a very useful feature. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gallik Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:33 AM To: List, viPhone Subject: Need Some Tips on Edit Functions OK, I have to confess to some total ignorance here. I want to take the text from a text message and place it into an e-mail so I can send it off to somebody who doesn't have a mobile phone. Here's my questions: - How do I select the text I want from the text message? - How do I then copy it to the work space? - How do I then paste that text into an e-mail? - Where can I read about using these edit functions so I can learn how to do additional things? Thanks in advance! ---------------- Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to You and Yours Holland and Bill - Scrooge, witnessing the Cratchet family Christmas celebration, begins an exchange with the Spirit of Christmas Present: - "`Spirit,' said Scrooge, with an interest he had never felt before, `tell me if Tiny Tim will live.' `I see a vacant seat,' replied the Ghost, `in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.' `No, no,' said Scrooge. `Oh, no, kind Spirit. say he will be spared.' `If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race,' returned the Ghost, `will find him here. What then. If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.' Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief." - "A Christmas Carol," 1843, Charles Dickens -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
