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Originally Posted by testacon
I don't think the problem with copy and paste was ever a problem within office, the problem was with a universal clipboard accessible to other areas of the phone.
Let's say I get a text message and want to paste a url from the text message into the browser of the phone, this is where I heard the problems existed. So within a program or suite it'll work but leave the program and the paste button disappears. Most likely another issue could be if 3rd party apps will be able to use the copy/paste features with the Microsoft branded apps.
I know it's too early to tell but I'm very doubtful these bugs will be worked out on the first generation release. It took Apple 3 years to figure their method out, and Microsoft seems WAY behind on the development side of WP7, so I wouldn't hold my breath...
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It's better just to integrate certain features into the OS. Like on an iPhone if there is a link in am email/text, it is blue-highlighted so you can just click on it and it opens it in your browser for you (much easier than copy/paste). Also if there is a number in a text/email you can hold it and then just add that number as a contact or send a text to it or call it, which is pretty sweet.
I very rarely use copy/paste on any platform (and I have used all of them) because so much of the OS is built around recognizing links and numbers. so the copy paste thing doesn't bother me nearly as much as not being able to change that horrendous UI with those stupid tiles.