Positioning the Cursor

[footslogger]

Obviously, deleting the last character while typing on the iPad keyboard is straightforward. However, I was wondering if there are "Arrow Keys" hidden somewhere that would allow you to move the cursor around within a body of text for seletive deleting/editing, other than trying to place it where you want it maually using the touch screen feature?

Anybody ?

Thanks in advance ...

 

[jduncan]

Obviously, deleting the last character while typing on the iPad keyboard is straightforward. However, I was wondering if there are "Arrow Keys" hidden somewhere that would allow you to move the cursor around within a body of text for seletive deleting/editing, other than trying to place it where you want it maually using the touch screen feature?

Anybody ?

Thanks in advance ...

That would be a no, but several people share your wish.

You can press the screen on your text for a few seconds and a magnifier will appear which allows you to better position your cursor for editing. Not as good as arrow keys, but it's something anyway.

 

[Bingoldsby]

An external BlueTooth keyboard solves this issue in part. On the nice Apple KB (the Aluminum one with the white keys), you can use the 4 arrow keys to move an insertion-point "I beam" - but the Delete key is really only a backspace key... deleting as it backspaces (normal), but no function to delete characters ahead of it. So it's better, but not perfect.

Brian - Sent from my iPad using iPF

 

[graywolf]

Good responses.