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2012 Nexus 7 Discussion Forums (1st Generation) => Nexus 7 Help => Topic started by: krosnafone on May 25, 2013, 09:49:37 PM

Title: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: krosnafone on May 25, 2013, 09:49:37 PM

Replying to a mail message (POP3 account), I select a portion of the original text but spot no way to delete it...

  Clues?   Thanks.

Title: Re: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: NordieBoy on May 26, 2013, 03:45:59 AM

Whenever you select text, up top you should have cut, copy etc, and there's always the backspace key.

Title: Re: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: JayJ on May 26, 2013, 04:07:22 AM

Yeah, if you highlight the text you want to delete simply press backspace...

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Title: Re: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: krosnafone on May 26, 2013, 11:39:08 AM

Quote from: JayJ on May 26, 2013, 04:07:22 AM

Yeah, if you highlight the text you want to delete simply press backspace...

One would think.  After quoted text is selected DONE, TEXT SELECTION, COPY, SHARE appear above.  Not CUT.  I see CUT only when selecting text in the compose field.
Pressing X does nothing.  Backspace either adds null characters to the new text input field or deletes my highlighting of the quoted text.

Perhaps it is not possible to delete portions of quoted material in email. ^

Title: Re: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: JayJ on May 26, 2013, 01:45:57 PM

My sincere apologies, I misread your original post. You are right, you cannot delete portions of a quoted email.

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Title: Re: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: NordieBoy on May 26, 2013, 02:21:51 PM

Well, that is a dumb way of doing things. Almost on par with not letting us empty the trash easily...

Title: Re: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: JayJ on May 27, 2013, 08:21:21 AM

What trash??

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Title: Re: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: NordieBoy on May 28, 2013, 12:47:27 AM

Quote from: JayJ on May 27, 2013, 08:21:21 AM

What trash??

Email trash...

Title: Re: Delete selected text in mail reply
Post by: JayJ on May 28, 2013, 01:09:40 AM

D'oh...

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