Laptop question

How the heck do I highlight something so I can copy and paste it? I try to drag the courser over text and it won’t turn blue. Can anyone help?

All I do is click and drag my cursor over the text and then click on the reply button. Below is what it looks like for me just after I’ve clicked and dragged. What happens when you do this?

Nothing happens. On my desktop PC I could drag the courser over text and highlight it in blue and click reply. It worked perfect. But with my new laptop with a touchpad, I drag it over and it won’t highlight it, nothing happens.

Not sure what OS you’re running - but perhaps these help:

For Windows OS8

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/text-selection-with-touch-pad-and-windows-8/32ea1dae-afc9-46c6-a3fa-560fa930dc96?auth=1

For Chromebook - try this:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromebook-central/khjMip3wUj0

I did a search using this text in google “laptop touchpad select text”

OK. Sorry for this delayed answer, I had to make a phone call. Thanks for the links.

I’m just presuming but going with it’s the touch pad your having problems with.

I gave up on the touch pad and removed all the features to make it more like a mouse. Saved my sanity to no end.

On my laptop I just hold down the mouse click button while moving on the touch pad.

I have problems with the text select too on iPad and iPhone. Lots of people use those things these days you know…