Apple has improved the ways you can quickly select, copy, and paste text, but the new gestures take some learning — especially if you regularly used the previous ones. Only, if you were used to how to ...

A new feature in Phone Link will let you select text in photos synced from your Android phone, but it’s probably not as good as your phone’s built-in OCR. A new feature in Phone Link will let you ...

Have you ever wanted to copy/paste text from the real world? Maybe you want to capture everything off a company whiteboard. Perhaps there’s a signboard of specials at a restaurant that you want to ...

If all I know is that I don’t know anything, that means I actually know loads. Let me illustrate. I’ve been on iOS since the iPhone 4, meaning I’ve been using Apple’s mobile devices for around 12 ...

The Android Gemini app could get a new “Select text” feature. This will allow you to select a portion of a prompt’s response instead of needing to copy the whole thing, as you do today. It is unclear ...

Amit from technology weblog Digital Inspiration points out a new under-the-radar feature in Firefox 3: multiple text selection. Now selecting text in Firefox is similar to selecting text in most text ...

Even if you’re brand new to the Mac, as long as you’ve had some exposure to personal computing in general, you probably know how to select text—just click-and-hold, then drag the mouse, and the ...

Google Docs is getting an absolutely lovely feature that could cut down a lot of busywork when it comes to properly formatting your document: the ability to select multiple sections of text at once.

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

You cannot select and delete text vertically like Microsoft Word; you must select and delete text vertically in a column. The reason for this issue is caused by having a left or right indent that is ...