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Copy and Paste is present in Windows Phone 7, sort of

This one went un-noticed for a while it seems..XDA-user RustyGrom discovered the following commands in the Office.dll of the unlocked emulator nearly two…

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This one went un-noticed for a while it seems..XDA-user RustyGrom discovered the following commands in the Office.dll of the unlocked emulator nearly two months ago:

 ± S e l e c t A l l P a s t e C o p y C u t € U n d o

and

&@D o n e ‘@C a n c e l  C o p y / P a s t e 9@S e l e c t T e x t € @P a s t e &@ € ‘@

and

@C o p y @C u t B@D e l e t e @S e l e c t A l l € -@C l o s e @ € -@

This shouldn’t be surprising given that Microsoft has already stated several times that the feature will be enabled in a future update after the initial release this fall.

Source: RustyGrom via XDA

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