Cut and paste in Notes

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Cut and paste in Notes

With the recent upgrade to Monterey, my Notes seems to have lost the ability to allow me to cut and paste text within a note. The highlight function seems to be modified: I can only highlight a contiguous non-blank section of text, and cannot position the cursor and highlight an entire line or section. This is just one of many changes I've run across in Monterey: it's a rather disappointing release of iOS. The kind of programming I came to expect from Microsoft back when I was stuck with PCs.

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Posted on Jul 18, 2022 9:00 AM

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dialabrain

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Jul 18, 2022 9:41 AM in response to Jvanpotter

You can try booting into Safe Mode, then restart normally.

How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

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Jvanpotter Author

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Jul 18, 2022 9:26 AM in response to dialabrain

And the Notes I have is version 4.9 of 1997. Something in the way the cursor works has changed... but only when I'm using Notes. Other edit tools work like they always have (the entire Open Office suite, Pages, Numbers, et alii) and allow me to position the cursor and drag across text to highlight so it can be copied. And since this behavior started after the Monterey upgrade, I have to suspect something in that release.

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dialabrain

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Jul 18, 2022 2:01 PM in response to Jvanpotter

In a Checklist, you have to be a little careful you don't accidentally select the beginning bullet as well. Possibly the easiest way would be to start the drag where you wish to end then drag to where you want to start the selection.

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Barney-15E

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Jul 18, 2022 2:36 PM in response to Jvanpotter

Also, if you want to select whole lines, you can triple-click or triple-click and drag to select multiple.

Checklists are designed to be easily reordered, so they like to move when you click and drag.

If you put the cursor where you want, then shift-click at the end of what you want to select.

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dialabrain

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Jul 18, 2022 9:37 AM in response to Jvanpotter

Nothing has changed…

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dialabrain

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Jul 18, 2022 2:07 PM in response to Jvanpotter

I forgot to mention you can also make multiple selections by holding the Command key, thus…

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dialabrain

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Jul 18, 2022 9:06 AM in response to Jvanpotter

Not sure what you are saying but FWIW, nothing has changed as far as cut & paste in Monterey.

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Jvanpotter Author

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Jul 18, 2022 1:55 PM in response to dialabrain

Did a couple tests... narrowed it down to 'checklist' - in that type, I can't get the cursor to let me copy part of a checklist item text... other lists, no problem. Hmmm.

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