Drag & drop text editing

17 votes

Highlight and drag text for ease of editing (instead of cut & paste). Also, grabbing a space when highlighting a word, in both drag & drop and cut & paste.

Under consideration Editing Suggested by: Andrea (05 Nov, '20) • Upvoted: 01 Jan • Comments: 4

Comments: 4

05 Nov, '20
Fathom Colcleaser Merged
Can you please add a feature to drag and drop sentences or words. If I find that the sentence works better in another place I have to retype the sentence.
06 Nov, '20
JohnBredesen Admin
"The ability to drag and drop in the manuscript area" (suggested by Fathom Colcleaser on 2020-11-05), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
17 Aug, '21
Lydia Pedersen
In Google Docs, I was able to highlight any chunk of words no matter the size (usually sentences) and drag them to a new area. With Dabble, if I want to move something that isn't an entire scene, I have to copy and paste it to the new position, and delete the original text. This interrupts my flow a bit. It would save me so much time to be able to drag my highlighted text around when I want to rearrange it.
02 Nov, '22
Craig McEwan
14 votes? I genuinely thought this would be top of everyone's wish list. Dabble is just about the only modern app location I know in which
you can't drag and drop, and I really miss it. Apart from that, I LOVE Dabble, and I love that it's uncluttered and simple. Please don't turn it into a monster like Scrivener by adding loads of distracting but unnecessary functions. (I have upvoted the request for an Undo/Redo button though.)