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One of the features requested the most on the iPhone is Cut and Paste.  I took 3 generations of the iPhone software before Apple finally added this simple feature.  I doesn’t work quite the way I thought it would but it does work.   To Cut|Copy you double tap the text you want to Cut|Copy.  This will bring up the Cut|Copy menu and the highlighting handles.  Chances are it has not highlighted all the text you would like.  To highlight more text just drag the handles over the text you need.   Tap the Cut or Copy command once the text has been selected to move the text into a temporary buffer.

To Paste is just as simple.  Once the text has been moved to a buffer you can navigate to the location you want to paste.  Double tap and selected Paste.

You will also notice when you double tap an area with no text you get the option to Select All.  Use this feature to select all available text.