You are certainly familiar with this iconic Windows feature of moving files or folders quickly. It has long been impossible to accomplish this on Samsung Galaxy J7 without resorting to specific software, however, it is now achievable. And you will find, if you don't already know it, that it will make your life easier in a lot of ways.
Today we will reveal to you in this article how to copy / paste on a Samsung Galaxy J7? To do this, first of all, we will explain to you what advantages you will have using this feature of Android, then, how to copy paste or cut paste on your Samsung Galaxy J7, first of all text directly thanks to the operations internal files of your phone, and, finally, folders or files using an external application.
What is the point of copy paste on a Samsung Galaxy J7?
We start this tutorial by showing you everyone the advantages of the copy / paste functionality on a Samsung Galaxy J7 . This functionality is as we told you originally from laptops, and without it it would be particularly complex to properly manage files and different folders.
It will actually give you the possibility like the functionality cut and paste select one or more files or folders, create copies in the memory of your Samsung Galaxy J7 and drop them anywhere you want. If you ever do a copy / paste you keep the original copy in its location, whereas if you ever do a cut / paste you will move the file and at the end of the procedure there will only be one version left. the place where you pasted it.
This feature is really relevant for organizing files in different folders, you may need to create a folder on your Samsung Galaxy J7 to better navigate your files.
How to copy / paste on a Samsung Galaxy J7?
We now go to the practical part of this tutorial, and in this context, we will first show you how to copy paste text directly from your Samsung Galaxy J7, then files or folders using a dedicated application.
How to copy and paste text on Samsung Galaxy J7
We start by showing you the particularly easy-to-use procedure which is to to copy and paste text on your Samsung Galaxy J7? Fortunately, the procedure is very easy, and no matter which application you find the procedure is going to be exactly the same. The only difference will lie in the fact that on some applications the text selection will be problematic and you will have to select large portions of text even if you only want to copy a sentence (example: Facebook). Let's go:
- Unlock your Samsung Galaxy J7 and find the document / app / text you want to copy or cut and paste
- Make a long press on one of the words of the text
- You will therefore see a dialog window open with different alternatives click on "Copy" or "Cut" if it's ever available and that's what you want to achieve
- Now go to the app in which you want to paste this text, do a long press in the destination text area
- In the dialog box select the paste option
How to copy and paste files on your Samsung Galaxy J7
If you ever want to copy paste photos, folders or files on your Samsung Galaxy J7 you will have to use a file manager. Generally all cell phones are now equipped with it as standard, however, this is not the situation for everyone, we have decided to reveal the procedure to you with Astro, one of the most used managers. Note that the procedure is substantially similar and that only certain terms or organization of the application differ:
- Open your file manager or download and install Astro on your Samsung Galaxy J7
- Navigate through the different folders until you find the file or folder you want to copy and paste
- Make a long press on it or click on the three small vertical dots at the top right of its label
- Click on "Copy to" and select the destination directory of the file or folder
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