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Got a great question from a reader the other day, regarding the clipboard feature on the Galaxy Tab. It’s a sweet feature.
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\nUnlike some other Android devices, the Samsung Galaxy Tab has a wonderful Clipboard interface. Normally, when you copy or cut something, it’s stored in the clipboard. From there, you can paste the item into another app.<\/p>\n
Well, you can paste into an app that accepts either text or a graphic, depending on whatever you’ve cut or copied.<\/p>\n
On the Galaxy Tab, you can choose the Clipboard command then peruse through a list of previously copied\/cut items. It works similarly to the Microsoft Office “collect and paste” feature.<\/p>\n
The key to getting to the Clipboard is to first select something. Selecting text is covered in my book, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 For Dummies<\/em>. You can often select a graphic by long-pressing it and choosing a Copy command from a menu. Occasionally the Copy command might appear on a Share menu.<\/p>\n To see the Clipboard, select a chunk of text. (There may be another way to get there, but that’s how I do it.)<\/p>\n With a chunk of text selected, choose the Clipboard command from the upper right corner of the screen. It appears next to the other text manipulation commands, as shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n Figure 1. Galaxy Tab Clipboard.<\/p><\/div>\n To insert an item into your text, pluck it from the list. Of course, in Figure 1, that item would replace the selected text, so be careful.<\/p>\n The whole text copy\/paste thing on a tablet remains kind of a weird feature, mostly because tablets (and cell phones) are not productivity devices. They lack keyboards. Well, real<\/em> keyboards. But still, if the urge hits you, the Galaxy Tab has one of the better ways to copy and paste stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Got a great question from a reader the other day, regarding the clipboard feature on the Galaxy Tab. It’s a sweet feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-galaxy-tab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Galaxy-Tab-Clipboard1.png\" "\\"Galaxy-Tab-Clipboard\\"")