One of the most widely used features on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is cut, copy and paste. If you’re not familiar with how it’s done on this device, use this tutorial to learn. It’s a bit difficult at first, but it’s a breeze once you get used to it.
To cut, copy and paste all text in a field…
- Tap and hold the text you wish to copy or cut for about 2 seconds.
- Choose “Cut” or “Copy” as desired. Choose “Select All” to highlight all the text in the current field.
- Navigate to where you would like to paste the text.
- Tap where you’d like the text to appear, then tap and hold the text field for about 2 seconds.
- Tap “Paste“.
To cut, copy and paste a part of text in a field…
- Tap and hold the text field for about 2 seconds.
- Drag the blue tabs across the text you’d like to cut or copy.
- Tap and hold the selected text until a menu appears.
- Choose “Cut” or “Copy” as desired.
- Navigate to where you would like to paste the text.
- Tap where you’d like the text to appear, then tap and hold the text field for about 2 seconds.
- Tap “Paste“.
Chuck Crowley says
This is not working on the Tab S3 when trying to copy and paste into Word from another application
Olav Sandvik says
Do you know how to coy and paste “ink” in OneNote using a tablet?
Alan says
I have spent days trying to fathom this out to no avail. Within 10 seconds of reading the above I had finally copied and pasted.
Very big thank you.
meg says
ohhh thank you!
this works for Tab 2
I had no idea how to do it….