How To: Copy & Paste on the BlackBerry Storm
Thanks to the windfall of Storm documents obtained yesterday, the often asked question about how copy and paste works on the Storm can finally be answered. All you’ll need to do is put one finger at the beginning, and another finger at the end of the area you want to copy. Slide those two fingers together and you have yourself a highlight. Then go Menu, Copy, and you’re good to paste. If you’re worried about your bad hand-eye coordination, fear not, because hitting the Escape key deletes the highlight. Simple, brilliant, and effective. Maybe the boys of Cupertino should take a field trip to Waterloo.
UPDATE: As some of our readers pointed out, you actually use two fingers simultaneously on the screen with starting and ending points to select text to copy.
I’ve had a Storm for two months now and I absolutely no idea how people on this list have such laudatory comments for this device. Mine’s a $500 brick. Everything is slow, the click screen frustrating, the accelerometer is slow and sometimes doesn’t work, the touch screen is inaccurate, design elements in general are poor (such as scrolling without momentum – I have 600 contacts, if the person I’m looking for isn’t in the A’s, scrolling is worthless) and these are just some of my complaints. I am frustrated with it daily – hourly. I’m not an iPhone enthusiast – this has nothing to do with one device being better than the other. My Storm feels like a 1/2 finished device which is unacceptable. Apparently I don’t have the same device as the rest of you. Or you’re just too brand loyal to admit this device is just not good. The whole reason I arrived here and am posting this diatribe is that I can’t get my damn copy and paste to work. And still can’t after reading through this forum. I hate this phone.