To quickly and easily copy and paste text messages in Google Messages, here’s what you need to do: Open Google Messages. Open the text message you want to copy and paste.

Here's how to copy and paste in just a few quick steps, whether you have a Windows or macOS machine, prefer using a keyboard, or would rather just use a mouse.

Before you copy text with gestures, you'll need to highlight it, which you can also do with gestures. The iPhone's gestures have long been a point of contention for Apple mobile device users.

But while I’ve known how to cut, copy, and paste on a laptop or desktop computer for, well, forever, I wasn’t quite as sure at first how to do it on my Android phone.

You can copy and paste on Mac by right-clicking, opening the toolbar, or using keyboard shortcuts. Text, images, GIFs, and other file formats can all be copied and pasted on a Mac.

Instead of grabbing your text one selection at a time, you can actually highlight, copy, and paste multiple pieces of noncontiguous content at once. Better, there’s no additional app required ...