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Opera today released Opera 5 Mini beta, the latest upgrade to its hugely successful web browser based on J2ME. The update brings many new features such as multiple windows/tabs, a speed dial, optimizations for touch devices and a password manager amongst other things. But the thing I am most excited about is the ability to copy text from a webpage. This functionality exists however, on first look it will appear as if you cannot copy the text out of the Opera Mini application or into it.
Fortunately, I have found a small work around that allows you to copy URL’s etc into the application as well as copy text out of it. More than anything, this makes Opera Mini 5 the best way to copy text from a webpage on a Symbian device. Read on for instructions.
(Hit Menu and then Settings)
(Goto Advanced and turn ‘Inline Editing’ off)
(Next simply open the webpage you want to copy text from. Long press the d-pad to bring up this menu)
(Hit ‘start’ to copy and ‘use’ when you have selected the text you need)
(Now, select ‘Search With…’)
(You will have ‘Google’ and ‘Wikipedia’ popup, now press the ‘up’ button on the d-pad such that both options disappear and then click into the box)
(You will see such a box appear)
(Now simply select and copy text as you normally would)
(Lastly, paste it into the notes application or wherever you like)
That’s it! Copying text from the web on a Symbian device is now as easy and it will be! Enjoy. Get Opera Mini 5 here.
You don’t have to turn inline editing off and then long-press the D-pad. Just press 1. This replaces these two steps you described 🙂
Inline editing must be indeed turned off or you won’t get to the Symbian editor in order to copy the text. Pressing 1 just replaces long pressing the D-pad.
By the way: Opera Mini SHOULD do all this behind the scenes in order to get true copy/paste abilities. The process described here is useful but very cumbersome.
Excellent writeup, however, I am confused as to how to edit one of my start page ‘shortcuts’. Anyone have an idea?
On the shortcut you want to remove, just long press the Dpad and the app will give you an option to clear or edit.
Hope this helps.
Fantastic! Thank you for the help!
Very good info . This help me a lot .
Now i am able to open the links in new tab also by holding d pad (centre key) . It simply shows option open link in new tab .
This is really superb . Opera mini rocks
Once again thank you so much for the info.
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Doesn’t work on my N97. Did all steps as described but when I come to this enter text screen, marking the whole text is the only thing I can do. No way to copy the selected text…
Does anyone know of a way to select text on a touch-screen 5th Edition without a keyboard such as the Samsung i8910?
Only using tutchscreen N97 in closhed positing will doe the copy text en search with !!!
With mine it works!
great!!!! unfortnately 5800 doesn`t have “pencil” button
Great !! outstanding workaround :)..thanks a lot
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Inline editing option is not available in opera 5 beta 2..So how to copy text in it?
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