So you bought a new iPad and are enjoying the many cool things that it does, when an email comes in from a friend with a great joke. You want to copy the joke and paste it into a Facebook post. Simple right?
All of a sudden you look for the mouse or arrow keys… They don’t exist. So how do you get the text from one program to the next? Here are some simple instructions.
1. Open the program you want to copy the text from on the iPad.
2. Find the text you want to copy and touch and hold your finger over the first word of the text.
3. Remove your finger and you will see the word highlighted in blue, with the words cut, copy, and paste above it.
4. To select multiple words, drag the blue highlight over the text you want to copy. Use the handles on the highlight to do this. All the words should now be highlighted.
5. Select the word “copy” up above the highlighted words.
6. To paste, you’ll need to navigate to the program you wish to paste to (click the select button on the iPad to bring you back to the main screen, and then select the program you wish to paste into)
7. Navigate to the input area of the program you want to paste the text into. Press and hold your finger on this text field until the paste button comes up. Press the button and you have successfully copied and pasted text on your iPad.
8. If you made a mistake in the paste process, look for the undo key on the number keyboard. Press it and your pasted text disappears. Now you know how to “undo” on the iPad.
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I find when I paste something into Facebook with my iPad, the text initially appears as expected but then it just disappears before my eyes. I have tried typing before and after the pasted text but it still disappears. I have been able to post text for a few seconds but then it is gone a second later. Does anyone else have this problem?
I haven’t experienced that problem with my iPad on Facebook. Maybe someone else can help.
I get the copy button, touch it and it turns blue over the highlighted text. I am not getting a paste button to appear.
Okay did it again and a bubble came up and eventually paste came. Took about 5 tries to get it to work.
Cannot get copy and paste on my iPad 2 tried everything
How do you copy and paste something off of Facebook. Example there is a post that a friend has and you want to copy and past it on your page how do you do that I seem to be having issues doing. My iPad 2 is new so it is a lot to learn about this iPad 2
And here’s how to copy and paste a comment in Facebook on iPad/iPhone etc. Come out of the fb app and go to fb thru safari. It’s the app causing the problem not ur iPad or fb… Then do as u would normally to copy and paste. Worked for me just now! Now fb app maker get ur act together and fix this BUG!!
Okay….. Why Can I not copy and paste from this text box I’m typing in! Nor Facebook!
Can someone help or do I need to trash iPad and get laptop instead???
I can’t get my iPad 2 to copy from people’s status,
‘s either r u having issue?? It sucks!!!
And here’s how to copy and paste a comment in Facebook on iPad/iPhone etc. Come out of the fb app and go to fb thru safari. It’s the app causing the problem not ur iPad or fb… Then do as u would normally to copy and paste. Worked for me just now! Now fb app maker get ur act together and fix this BUG!!
I know how to copy and paste but after I copied one thing and tried copying another, it’s only pasting the original one. It won’t paste any new thing I copy, only the first thing copied. Is there a way to fix this?
I am having the same problem, but only with certain sites. I have called Apple several times and no answer. have you solved it?
I too cannot get paste to work, I can get the copy box come up but it never shows the paste box in the next app?
I, too, cannot get copy/paste tp come up. Only shows highlight or share or define. I was trying to copy Best of Times, Worst of Times…from Chas Dickens ” Tale of Two Cities.” while reading downloaded book.