@TTgowings

Thank you! That did the trick. And also led to an interesting discovery. In the keyboard options menu there are 2 checkboxes: 1 to launch fingerboard with fingerpress, and 1 to launch it with middle dpad button. I decided some time ago to only check the dpad option. When selecting a canola text field, as with any other app, I get the small keyboard with which I can type, but in canola the pasting didn't work.

For some reason the dpad button doesn't = fingerboard in canola like it will everywhere else... but when I went into the keyboard settings and checked the first box, then now when I click on a canola text area I immediately get large keyboardd with working paste feature. Yay!!

I remember now the early days of canola when pasting worked for me... it was with fullscreen keybboard then too.

Anyway, thanks