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Select Text Quickly: iOS

Here is a little-known feature that makes text selection on iOS devices quick and easy!

Students frequently need to move through a document and qickly select a desired amount of text. In iOS 9, Apple came out with a new and improved method to select text on iOS devices.  Do you know about and use this feature?

Select Text Quickly Commands

Pages document with one word selected and the Tool Bar options displayed.

Note: This text selection method is only available when you are in an ‘editable textfield’, meaning that there is a cursor and you can type on the document.  Example:  When in a textfield in Pages and when writing an email.  Selecting text using this method does not work when reading an email that was sent to you, when reading an Internet article or book.

By Diane Brauner

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