User's Manual
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Using the onscreen keyboard
Enter text using the onscreen keyboard. Some applications open the keyboard automatically. In others,
touch a text field where you want to enter text to open the keyboard.
Enter text by typing
Touch a text field.
The onscreen keyboard opens.
To capitalize the next letter you type, tap once on button. Touch
and hold for all caps.
If you want to change characters to numbers, tap on the button.
If you want to change characters back to letters, tap on the
button.
If you touch in a text field where there is already text entered, the
insertion point is set where you touch and the insertion point tab
appears. You can drag the insertion point by its tab to move the
insertion point to pick exactly where you want to add more text. You
can also select a word or more at a time and copy, cut or paste.
Touch the keys on the keyboard to enter text. What you type appears in
the text field and in the strip above the keyboard.
When the keyboard has a suggestion for what you might be typing, the
word you’re typing is underlined in the text field and the suggestions
appear in the strip above the keyboard.
The boldfaced suggestion at the left of the strip is the keyboard’s best
suggestion. You can drag the strip to the left to bring any additional
suggestions into view.
Press space or a punctuation mark to enter the boldfaced suggested
word.