David,
Thanks for taking a look at this. I tried the multiple tap methods, but none of those highlighted anything. Press & hold until word highlighted, then slide marked a section of text easier than the way I first described (the hints David provided led me to this method). But it still jumps to the previous entry when released, unless it is the first entry of the month, in which case the text stays selected. Marked text near the bottom of longer entries does not show this behavior.
This may be one of those unsolvable problems given the many types of devices that need to be supported. I can work around this. For anything serious I can use my PC, where selection works normally.
Thanks for taking a look at this. I tried the multiple tap methods, but none of those highlighted anything. Press & hold until word highlighted, then slide marked a section of text easier than the way I first described (the hints David provided led me to this method). But it still jumps to the previous entry when released, unless it is the first entry of the month, in which case the text stays selected. Marked text near the bottom of longer entries does not show this behavior.
This may be one of those unsolvable problems given the many types of devices that need to be supported. I can work around this. For anything serious I can use my PC, where selection works normally.