[CovKid66]

To select more than one message use the "Select Messages" option in the menu. To select text within a message, it may depend upon the ROM, but try tap and hold and see if you get a "Make Selection" option in pop-up menu that appears. There was also a trick to select text in a message but it does not work in the ROM I'm using now -perhaps it will for yours. Tap and hold -and you have to time this right -but just before the menu appears drag across the text. If the menu appears you've waited too long. Don't spend too much time on that one, as I said, it may no longer function in the ROM you're using.