Highlighting and copying text in email
 

I know how to highlight and copy text inside the web browser but how do you highlight text inside the email client? Even when I open a message to reply, I can type but cannot hightlight text.

Thanks in advanced

Re: Highlighting and copying text in email
 

If you "forward" a message from your inbox you are able to highlight and copy text using the keypad.

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if you open the message to reply then you can move around using the cursor keys. to select press shift and use the arrow keys to mark the text. press control+c in the end to copy.
it's still a bad way to do it, but at least it works. i tried directly from the email body but it doesn't seem to work...

Re: Highlighting and copying text in email
 

wow... that is a bad way of doing it but thanks both of you... got it working now!

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Why is this still an issue? I thought this would have been fixed in PR1.2. It's a joke that you can't do such as simple thing in such a core part of software! :(

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Hold shift - select text. No need to reply etc. The search button is your friend.

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If people bother to correctly read my darn post they'd understand that I was referring to the 'touch' highlight feature, as in the Notes application!

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My mistake - I posted the old way of doing it (force of habit) the new way is to hold shift and touch highlight. However my point about the search button holds true as several threads have mentioned this.

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I did in fact search, but it only brought me here. I'm used to things not working. Next time I will search harder :)

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Wait, I think we have a misunderstanding. I am looking in fact for draggable highlighting from with Reply/forward/compose. So i can drag over a portion of text in an email I'm writing and bold it, for example.

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Ahh ok. Well for that its shift key and arrows. Sorry - the main problem most people had was selecting text from an email they had gotten.

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thanks for a useful thread and tip on using Shift to touchscreen highlight in an inbox email. it is almost what i was looking for.

it there a way to hightlight and copy text from an inbox email without poping out keyboard? like in the web browser, for example, with sliding cursor from the left and locking it.

thanks! (yep N900 is deffinately a community device, and where Nokia fails to deleiver ease of use or clear instructions, the community picks it that slack.)

Re: Highlighting and copying text in email
 

I have the same problem on N9... impossible to highlight an email. If i reply impossible to select the text even if i forward, even with arrows....

Re: Highlighting and copying text in email
 

N9 and N900 are very different mate, you might want to look around in the N9 section, I doubt the N900 section will be able to help. :)