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Copying and "the finger"

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Ok I have to ask....
When on my iPad..if I copy anything..using my finger on the screen.. I hold that finger up in the air..as if the "copy" is attached to the end... and dont use it until I have "pasted"it onto whatever I am doing,
only then will I use that finger again. I have seen me be interrupted and still hold the finger up in the air if I need to answer the phone etc...

Please tell me I am not the only one who does this :crazy:
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I think it is possible you may be!!!!!
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just checking the date..... Friday 13th, not April 1.. :o

not having an ipad, I haven't the foggiest what you are describing. :? :?

Can you post a video! :crazy:
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So long as you don't lick your finger between copying and pasting (depending upon what is being copied, of course), you should be OK !!
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I've got a sneaky feeling she's giving us the finger............the bi*** :lol:

Sue, try using a stylus pen, they're much better than your finger and don't leave marks all over your screen.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... pens&ajr=1
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This is not at all unusual in residential establishments for the bewildered, as well as a ' copy ' finger some have been observed to occasionally have a ' cut ' finger :moresarcasm:
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Manoverboard wrote:
This is not at all unusual in residential establishments for the bewildered, as well as a ' copy ' finger some have been observed to occasionally have a ' cut ' finger :moresarcasm:

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lololol Honest I am not joking... thats what I do.
Stephen..I have problems with my fingers..they dont work very well now.I find the stylus too thin on my phone. Unless of course I could get a big fat chunky stylus...
I do have a keyboard for my iPad, but dont know how,or if it is possible to copy and paste without touching screen, I dont have a mouse..or a little knobbly thing..like used to have on laptop.
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Any of these any good Sue. Failing that try putting a point on a broom handle :thumbup:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_nos ... Pad+stylus
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Sue I do exactly the same, in fact if I need to change screen, I will actually use a DIFFERENT finger to swipe, so that my copying finger is untouched! Each time I do it, I think how crazy I'm being, but I simply can't do any other way!
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GillD46 wrote:
Sue I do exactly the same, in fact if I need to change screen, I will actually use a DIFFERENT finger to swipe, so that my copying finger is untouched! Each time I do it, I think how crazy I'm being, but I simply can't do any other way!
lololol Wonderful....!!!!! I knew I couldnt possibly be the only one !!!!

( yes I use a different finger too :crazy: )
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Mad as a box of frogs, the lot of you !
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You've lost me ( not difficult ) but I'm having a good giggle at you walking around the house with your finger in the air, what do you do if you have to answer the door :lol: :lol:
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Dancing Queen wrote:
You've lost me ( not difficult ) but I'm having a good giggle at you walking around the house with your finger in the air, what do you do if you have to answer the door :lol: :lol:
I protect the finger of course... and I can open the door with one hand...or if the door is open..I shout just come in... :lol:
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I worry about some of you at times............................... Tell me it's not catching!!! :lol:
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oldbluefox wrote:
I worry about some of you at times............................... Tell me it's not catching!!! :lol:
Just so long as you don't lick your finger after touching their avatar on screen you should be safe Foxy! :crazy:
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I'm going to start wearing gloves on my iPad!! :crazy:

Actually I find the touch screen hard to live with. You only have to touch it and suddenly the whole screen changes and something you don't want turns up, or you get adverts you didn't want, or suddenly it all goes blue and wants you to copy and cut, or it autofills when you don't want it to. Give me a keyboard any day.
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oldbluefox wrote:
I'm going to start wearing gloves on my iPad!! :crazy:

Actually I find the touch screen hard to live with. You only have to touch it and suddenly the whole screen changes and something you don't want turns up, or you get adverts you didn't want, or suddenly it all goes blue and wants you to copy and cut, or it autofills when you don't want it to. Give me a keyboard any day.

That old chestnut Foxy. We all know what you've been looking at, and I bet they're blue as well :lol:
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