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September 03, 2007 Mark/Unmark is even better with the edit key Posted by at 06:29 AM | Categories:

So about that edit key (the one with the pencil that you're not really sure what it does... which meant in all my dim-wittery I always called it the "pencil key"), it has a few more tricks up its sleeve. I used to think it was for switching between writing languages and turning predicting text on and off, and indeed you can access that context menu by pressing the pencil—I mean edit key—when you're writing a message.

But it's also a really, really much faster way to mark or unmark images or messages or what have you. Try this when faced with a stack of images you want to transfer to your computer (or send to the Kingdom of Deletia forever): hold down the edit (I almost wrote pencil) key and then click the center of the navigation key. You should see that little checkmark appear next to your item. Now try holding the edit key and pressing in a direction with the navi key: you should be marking multiple items that way. It's a simple trick, and I guess the edit key earns its name with that function. Again, this is pretty simple stuff, but while I knew about Mark/Unmark for ages, I just found out about how the edit key can be used with it about three weeks ago, and my thumbs are still angry with me for all the manual deleting of hundreds of needlessly saved text messages at one time. You learn something new every day, no?

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Johanna great tip, but don't forget that some future Nokia models will remove the pencil (edit) key since it's actually one of the least used keys. For example, N81 does not have an edit key.

But don't worry for those devices with the edit key removed the Pound/hash (#) Key can be used in place of the edit key. So instead of holding down the edit key just hold down the # key and press in a direction with the navigation keypad to highlight text as you described in your post.

What - edit key will be deleted!? Will there be another way to copy-paste as easy as edit (pencil) kay?

What - edit key will be deleted!? Will there be another way to copy-paste as easy as edit (pencil) key?

Sorry for multiposting - bad connection. Kind of underlines my worry, anyhow.

lol what a noob i'm shocked taht a man like that even runs a blog and knows what s60 actually is

btw man means human in general, not a male, lol
and i think you should attach the "back to blog" link to the logo, it's annoying to click on a small font light green link, kthx

good tip.. I didn't know about the mark selected stuff. Hell, I didn't even know about the copy and paste with the pencil key. Now I'm understanding it's usage. I don't get why they would remove it though. It makes sense to be on its own for editing functions.

OK, so what's an s60 (lol)

I didn't know about the mark selected stuff great work..thanks for the information

mark is obviously better than edit yea i agree

well, for me, i used to use the pencil key to get screenshot or printscreen. with this key dissapeared, i can not get print screen or screenshot. i have tried with hash (#) key plus * or OK, still can't do it....
any one can share how to do this...?

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