How to Copy & Paste on a Blackberry II
Blackberry devices are well known for their messaging capabilities, and have developed a very devoted following of customers. Blackberries also offer a powerful operating system that offers many of the same features of a desktop computer. If you are a new Blackberry user, you will want to learn some of the basic but very useful capabilities of your new device, such as the ability to cut and paste text.
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Instructions
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Position your cursor at the starting point of the text that you wish to copy.
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Hold down "Alt" and press down on the trackball of your Blackberry so that it goes into selection mode.
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Roll your trackball to select all the text to be copied. Press the trackball and a menu will appear.
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Select "Copy." Move your cursor to the location to which you wish to paste the text you have copied.
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Click the trackball again, select "Paste," and you are finished. The text will appear.
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Use an alternative method to copy and paste by pressing "Shift" while scrolling your trackball to select text.
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Press the "Menu" button, and select "Copy" form the menu that appears.
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Position your cursor in the desired location for the text, press "Menu" again, and select "Paste" to complete the job.
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Tips & Warnings
Once you have finished with the copy and paste, you can free up memory by removing the selected text from the Blackberry clipboard. Select Options>Security Options>Memory Cleaning. Set it to Enable, press the Menu button, and select Clear Now.
