# Posting on cell phone, formatting floating box solution
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304
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**Created:** [July 16, 2024, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304 "2024-07-16T04:51:36Z")
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/1 "2024-07-16T04:51:37Z")
I can’t believe I only just discovered this, but maybe I’m not the only one.
I do most of my posting from my cell phone for reasons. I’ve been annoyed ever since the switch to Discourse that whenever I want to format a word or phrase by highlighting it and trying to click on the menu, the floating “Copy Paste Select All” menu is in the way of the actual shortcuts to click on, so I have to format it manually. Turns out, I can just move the floating menu down out of the way. D’oh!
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/2 "2024-07-16T05:44:18Z")
It took me 2 months to figure out that icon that made my keyboard bigger. Enough to actually use it, like I do.
And then I found the stylus in a little slot at the bottom.
😕
Yeah. Go me!
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/3 "2024-07-16T05:45:35Z")
I have no idea what this means.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/4 "2024-07-16T05:48:32Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> Turns out, I can just move the floating menu down out of the way.
It depends on the OS you use. I remember that working in one version of Android, but it doesn’t work in 13, and didn’t work in 12 (both on my current phone).
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/5 "2024-07-16T05:53:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> It depends on the OS you use. I remember that working in one version of Android, but it doesn’t work in 13, and didn’t work in 12 (both on my current phone)
Maybe that’s why it took me awhile to notice it - I replaced my old phone a year and a half ago.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/6 "2024-07-16T06:59:15Z")
That icon to make the onscreen keyboard bigger is next to the floating box. (Completely different on my tablet and Laptop) I just never looked at what it was and struggled along, as you yourself did, til I _accidentally_ discovered it. As, you yourself discovered your own screen issue.
I don’t know about you but I coulda looked in the manual. But I didn’t.
So, sorry to have bothered you with my little insignificant thought.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/7 "2024-07-16T07:16:27Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> That icon to make the onscreen keyboard bigger is next to the floating box.
Never seen it, but I don’t use a tablet.
Funny how not-obvious these things can be.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/8 "2024-07-16T07:19:15Z")
Too many moving parts for me, sometimes.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/9 "2024-07-16T07:22:44Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> Maybe that’s why it took me awhile to notice it - I replaced my old phone a year and a half ago.
Looking around, there is a possibility that it is a Samsung-specific feature. And it waa three phones ago that I had a Samsung.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/10 "2024-07-16T11:15:18Z")
I can report that dragging the cut/copy/paste/select all pop-up works on my Samsung S10e on Android 12. Never noticed it getting in my way, but I format by keystroking the magic characters, not clicking the menu icons.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/11 "2024-07-16T11:17:51Z")
When commenting on how something does or doesn’t work, mentioning what brand and type of device you have really helps. One thing even the most tech-clueless of us know is that there’s nearly nothing in common between a a PC, a Mac or I-anything, and an Android whatever once you get past the very basics of you can read words on the screen and type something somehow.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/12 "2024-07-16T12:30:41Z")
> [@needscoffee](#):
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> I want to format a word or phrase by highlighting it and trying to click on the menu, the floating “Copy Paste Select All” menu is in the way of the actual shortcuts to click on, so I have to format it manually. Turns out, I can just move the floating menu down out of the way. D’oh!
**Thank you!**
Holy crap that is useful.
I’ve been moving the line I want to edit down several lines first and then deleting the blank lines. Part of why I don’t like posting on my phone.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posting-on-cell-phone-formatting-floating-box-solution/1004304/13 "2024-07-16T16:22:21Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Part of why I don’t like posting on my phone.
I don’t like doing it either, yet probably 90% of my posting is done from my phone.
I am a masochist.