I am not sure if you got your answer yet, however it looks like this question came up way back when (post #1

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I believe the posts below were referring to some options for Messanger:
#19:
FingerKeyboard has a copy and paste function which works really well. It is, IMO, a much better alternative than switching back & forth to the default WM keyboard solely for this purpose.
#21: So does Touchpal (I use version 3.5, the new 4.0 sucks IMHO).
I never use the hardware KB, TouchPal has more useful functions & is 50 times faster than a hardware KB if you use the T+ function........
Hope this works for you....