Home Forums Peripherals & Multimedia iTunes, iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV Possibly the dumbest iPad question ever

I think the best you can do is press and hold in the vicinity of the item you want to edit. Your cursor will change to a magnifying glass (keep pressing and holding), which you can then slide around with your finger to the spot you want to edit.

By the way, if you type two spaces (space bar tapped twice) after a word, a period will automatically be placed at the end of what is now the sentence.