How to select text in modern list?

[Ivan Unger]

I was wondering if there is an easy way to select text from a modern list?

I've noticed that I can right-click and copy the content of a field, but how can I simply select text with the mouse?

Right now when I drag with the left mouse button, I start to drag the whole line. I wouldn't even have a use case for dragging a line of a modern list.

[#2]

Easiest way I got myself used to is to select the text in the details pane that appears after selecting the item in the list...

[#3]

What about using the Quick Edit and select the cell(s) you want to copy?

[#4]

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@jcgonzalezmartin wrote:
What about using the Quick Edit and select the cell(s) you want to copy?

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Seems to complicate to teach people to be honest, for quick text snippets, e.g. email addresses.

Does anyone know why'd we want to drag a list item at all? If I remember correctly classic design allowed for text selection. 

Guess I'll tell them to rightclick > copy field content

[#5]

@Ivan Unger 

We don't even have the copy field content. We have no way to copy anything on our page. I've been trying to figure this out for months.

[#6]

I've been trying to get a link copied out from a column, and there wasn't any simple solution I could find:

- users have restricted access (so no quick edit)

- too complicated to get users to open the side panel (especially when there is that "copy link" everywhere)

- I couldn't even understand the logic behind a solution offered by a Microsoft rep: "Switch back to classic."

For what I wanted to achieve, the best solution was a copy-to-clipboard automation. Using a flow alone might have been the solution if it wasn't for the extra verification step the user must go through for every file; slow and complicated. I also had a go with writing a power app - but didn't get anywhere.

I ended up using a flow to create a link to a blank webpage, with the text I want to copy as a url parameter. Then use JS to copy it to the clipboard - the first time a user does it, they need to allow the page to access the clipboard, but since it is a secure page, most browsers don't ask for it again.t

A very complicated solution to a very simple thing.