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The cursor is a vertical bar that indicates where text you type or
paste is inserted.
4. When you finished typing, touch the button to the right of the text
field or the same button on the keyboard or press the Back key to
close the keyboard.
1.11.2 Cutting or copying text
To quickly cut or copy all the text in a text field, do as follows.
1. Touch the text field that contains the text to cut or copy to open it.
2. Touch and hold the text field to display the Edit text menu.
3. Touch Cut all or Copy all .
To cut or copy selected text in a text field, do as follows.
1. Touch the text field that contains the text to cut or copy.
2. Touch to move the cursor to the beginning or end of the text to be
selected.
3. Touch and hold the text field to display the Edit text menu.
4. Touch Select text and touch to move the cursor to the end or
beginning of the text to be selected. Or touch Select all to select
all the text in the text field. The selected text is highlighted.
5. Touch and hold the text field again to display the Edit text menu.
6. Touch Cut or Copy .
After you cut or copy text, the text is stored in a temporary area so
that you can paste it into other text field. Before you can paste, you
must have cut or copied text at least for once. Once you cut or copy
text, you can paste multiple times. To paste the most recently text you
have cut or copied in another text field, do as follows.
1. Touch the text field where you want to paste the text.
2. Touch to move the cursor to the location where you want to paste
the text.
3. Touch and hold the text field to display the Edit text menu.
4. Touch Paste .
1.12 Opening and switching applications
To open an application, you can touch its shortcut on the Home
screen, or on the Application screen which can be opened by
touching the Application button on the Home screen.
To switch to a recently used application, you can press and hold the
Home key, and touch the application icon in the small window that
opens with shortcuts to applications that you have used recently. Or
you can touch the Event button to open the
Event Manager and
touch to open a recently used application in the Tasks list.