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How to add arrow symbols?

Is there a way to add arrow symbols - UPWARDS, DOWNWARDS, LEFTWARDS, RIGHTWARDS so they can be properly seen in Word Mobile. When I open Word documents I just see this square symbol instead of any arrow
Anybody can help me out with that?
Thank you!

Hmmm, if i select the text and then change the font to "Courier New" it shows the arrows.
So I guess the question is where I can get additional fonts?
Like Times New Roman, Calibri.
Are there mobile versions of these fonts or should I just copy the ones from desktop ?
Thank you!

As far as I know, you just copy the ttf file from your pc to
Windows\Fonts folder
please post back if this works OK

i tried it and it works. thanks for the tip, i was wondering the same thing too

Opera form scrolling

When I open Opera and try to type in a longer query into the search homepage(or any other form), when the text is longer than the edit can take, it is not scrolled. I have to click and scroll to see what I am writing... Any ideas for a fix?

You can try my User Javascript posted here. Unfortunately, the program won't work as Opera in the Leo doesn't use an .ini file, you'll have to enable User Javascript manually and use the .js file provided.

Hey, thanks, but it does not work. It only fixes situations when form edit is wider than screen. In this case edit fits inside the screen, but is not scrolled when long text is entered.

You mean vertical scrolling? I have a Leo Opera on my Touch HD (no HD2 yet), and it seems to work fine.
Don't know how to fix this problem, sorry.

Open Opera, go to www.google.com/ and typy "forums.xda-developers.com". When I type it, I can see only forums.xda-developers. and to see .com I need to select the text and move to the right.

Try this! (more stuff added)

Ok, by now you probably know HTC's nice text selection tool. To use it, write some words in a HTC application (like the text message composer), then tap-and-hold somewhere in the text. You get one handle to move around, or two if you want to select a precise part.
But there's more. Change "HKLM/Software/HTC/TextSelection/EnableMagnifier" from 0 to 1. Now activate the text selection tool again as described above and try moving the single handle around...

Nice catch. Can be helpful in tight selections. I've been looking through the reg. So much stuff disabled... Why does HTC do this? They could've placed it as an option on SMS menu...

Thanks. Added to tips thread.

Maybe they disable it so we at XDA have something to do until HSPL is released

Some other simple but cool things I discovered:
* You can use the album app to crop pictures. Just pinch-to-zoom until the part you want fills the screen, then tap the screen, tap the icon on the bottom right and choose the second option from the menu. In Dutch it's called 'Schermafbeelding opslaan'. It will save a cropped copy of your pic.
* Here's a registry entry I found: "HKLM/Software/HTC/Manila/InternetPush/EnablePushInternet". It's set to 0 by default. I'm not really interested in push internet, so I haven't experimented with this, but it seems you can enable it if you want.
* Sometimes touch scrolling gets in the way of selecting text. If you want to select text, the solution depends on the context, but to start you just tap-and-hold anywhere:
-- In Opera, you can switch text selection on/off in the context menu;
-- In some apps (like while reading an e-mail message) you get a pop-up menu where the first option is 'make selection' ('selectie maken' on my Dutch device);
-- In Word, just before the pop-up menu appears, you see this: '[T]'. As soon as it appears, move your finger and you'll be able to select text!
* If you like the Footprints app but prefer full size pictures to those square 'polaroids', there's an option to save a full sized copy whenever you create a 'Footprint' (Footprints tab -> Menu -> Settings).
* The 'me' entry in the People app stores your 'owner' info. I know this is widely known by now, partly because I've been posting it everywhere, but I still see so many people complaining they can't register their applications (Resco stuff, SKtools)... because the can't find the old owner info icon. I have registered both Resco Explorer and SKtools perfectly fine without ever bringing the owner info icon back.

I haven't ever been able to get the Text Selection sliders to work on a custom rom even after setting the registry value to 1.
This is an awesome feature and I can't understand why it doesn't work.

leepriestenator said:
I haven't ever been able to get the Text Selection sliders to work on a custom rom even after setting the registry value to 1.
This is an awesome feature and I can't understand why it doesn't work.
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you know it only works in text messaging, right? (well, some other htc apps too, apparently, but i couldn't name another one i've seen it in)

Yes of course... I'm aware that it only works in the realm of Sense specifically mail and text. I can do the standard selection thing but I just can't seem to get the sliders.
Any ideas?

hmm, well a common mistake I've come across a few times is people not pressing select the first time.
firstly go type some text into a new text message. (not sure where the idea it works in email came from, certainly doesn't on mine.)
ok, press and hold should bring up a cursor and the words "select|select all.
use the single sljder to set the start(or end, whichever) press 'select' nd now a second slider should join the first, enabling you to select.

Thanks for the responses guys, but as it turned out, I didn't realise that Energy ROMs are stripped of the HTC Messaging Module and that seems to be the only place where this 'feature' works.
It's a shame that's it's not available system-wide considering how easy it makes life.
I installed the HTC Messaging Client and voila, it was it there! but that excitement was short lived considering how bad HTC's messaging client is.

hah couldn't agree more. with the magnifier too its great ,, just never gets used.

[Q] Copy - Paste - Select All?

I was trying to copy some text from a web page to save as a note. I double tapped the screen on a word to get a word selected, and kept trying to drag the markers to select the text on the whole page.
I gave up after multiple tries, as the dragging would sometimes clear the selected text and end the selection. I think I just missed the little marker to select text. I just could not get it to work.
I tried looking for something to select all the text on the web page (thinking I could delete what I did not want after pasting it). But, I could not find any such option.
I am using an HTC HD2 running American Android from Aug 28.
I looked for apps, but I cannot tell from the descriptions if any actually do this, and if they did would they be good at it.
Any ideas?

[Q] Smart Select - can you PASTE?

Hello guys,
I got my N4 today, very pleased.
I dont think there is a way to PASTE your smart clips. I see a way to share them and to add them to a scrapbook, but not paste.
I was sure I saw something like that in some demo?
The manual does not mention if/how that can be done,
Any success with that out there?
tx
Mark.

Select the text
Hit the T button on the selction.
Tap the Share button
Pick "Copy to Clipboard" from the Share via popup.

ATnTdude said:
Select the text
Hit the T button on the selction.
Tap the Share button
Pick "Copy to Clipboard" from the Share via popup.
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Hi
Thanks for the response, but there is no such option to Copy to Clipboard.

If there is no option search playstore ...there was an app that forced copy to clipboard to be an option...especially useful for YouTube.

xManMythLegend said:
If there is no option search playstore ...there was an app that forced copy to clipboard to be an option...especially useful for YouTube.
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Hi
yeah, I did that before I posted here.
The clipboard paste apps I found there are about COPYING multiple items to that clipboard, but which does not tie in with Smart Select - so you can't copy smart selected elements to those apps, only things which have the COPY contextual menu as an option, like when you select text and have a copy option.
Nothing I have found allows you to copy a "smart selection" set of items to the clipboard. In fact I don't know if this would make sense on an android system level... the "smart selection" may not use the android clipboard at all... so there may not be any solution unless Samsung makes it possible.
Mark

fredphoesh said:
Hello guys,
I got my N4 today, very pleased.
I dont think there is a way to PASTE your smart clips. I see a way to share them and to add them to a scrapbook, but not paste.
I was sure I saw something like that in some demo?
The manual does not mention if/how that can be done,
Any success with that out there?
tx
Mark.
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If you open a note and use the edit in s-note icon in the lower right-hand corner, you can just drag one or more items from the collection to the note.

Maris_ said:
If you open a note and use the edit in s-note icon in the lower right-hand corner, you can just drag one or more items from the collection to the note.
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Hi
Open a note?
What note?
I have some smart select items I want to paste into an email I am replying to.... and there is no "note" I am working on, and there is no icon anywhere to drag to that email I am replying to...
Seems this is how I would use it, and it does not work like that... you can create a new email but not add to a reply or add clips to an existing document.

fredphoesh said:
Hi
Open a note?
What note?
I have some smart select items I want to paste into an email I am replying to.... and there is no "note" I am working on, and there is no icon anywhere to drag to that email I am replying to...
Seems this is how I would use it, and it does not work like that... you can create a new email but not add to a reply or add clips to an existing document.
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If you don't want to save it to a note, but email instead, it still works the same. Save your selected item (s) to a collection using that little collections icon then open your new email message. If you have more than one item in the collection, tap on the down triangle at the bottom of the collection box, select the item you want to place in the email, and just drag it over. It will place the text in the spot you drag it to.
When you are done placing the text or image. You can drag the collection box towards the top of the screen and a trashcan appears. Drag it to the trashcan and it deletes the collection.

Maris_ said:
Save your selected item (s) to a collection using that little collections icon then open your new email message. If you have more than one item in the collection, tap on the down triangle at the bottom of the collection box, select the item you want to place in the email, and just drag it over. It will place the text in the spot you drag it to.
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nope
that does not work.
try it.
try smart copy a couple of icons off your desktop and try paste that in gmail. I copied the phone icon, the message icon and app drawer icons as one image file, and when I drag and drop that to gmail, I get "[email protected]" instead of the image of the three icons!
This only works with TEXT but not with photos. Photos result in some gobbledygook nonsense word.

It works via drag n drop with the stock email app. With Gmail you need to use the share button and pick gmail. They will in both cases be sent as attachments to the email you send.
Sent from my SM-N910T using XDA Free mobile app

It doesn't work on Gmail, only if you create a new message. If it's an existing message you're responding to, there is no way to use smart select.

It works as an attachment so you have to save the images first if you want to attach them in Gmail to a reply. I just tested it. I used Share>ES Save To to save the selection as a png to the download directory. (I have ES File Explorer so that shows up in the share list) Then open your Gmail item and attach it from there.
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Well adding attachments to Gmail is something any phone can do... As I am trying to point out, Smart Select cannot paste the contents to an existing gmail, you have to save it first, then attach manually from gmail... Not particularly fast, unique or convenient.
You have to add the attachments to gmail one at a time
The text "Smart Selections" are attached purely as images (no OCR)
So Smart Select is great for Evernote, Google Keep or Samsungs note taking apps, but not for existing Gmails! Saving to Drive also saves text smart selections as images instead of OCR text & images.
Mark.

Well I think Smart Select is a bit of a misnomer. It works by automating the process of saving the selections to png files so you can share them. That's just how it works.
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Dumbo53 said:
Well I think Smart Select is a bit of a misnomer. It works by automating the process of saving the selections to png files so you can share them. That's just how it works.
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the main part is multiple clipboard copying of BOTH images AND text simultaneously.
It also does OCR of text in images
SADLY with "copy to clipboard" missing as a sharing option, the inability to paste to any app that can paste images and text simultaneously, like gmail, is missing.

I've been trying to figure this out too. I have found a different way of selecting items into the clipboard. I use image clip instead of smart select. Then I hit the share button in the top right. And it automatically copies the item to the clipboard.
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And from there, if you need it to be square there's an option to do so in the top left corner

sangvann said:
I've been trying to figure this out too. I have found a different way of selecting items into the clipboard. I use image clip instead of smart select. Then I hit the share button in the top right. And it automatically copies the item to the clipboardr
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Hmm
when I go to Share , and then choose none of the options and then go to Gmail and press to get contextual menu, there is no paste that comes up... so nothing gets copied into the clipboard. What steps did you take?
Even if it did, that would be one image at a time... which is ok, but not quite the nifty thing SmartSelect could be if it could copy all pix and text to clipboard!
Mark