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2 Using the Android operating system
Entering information
Depending on the program or app you are using, you can enter information in several ways:
l Synchronizing. Connect the handheld to an office computer to exchange information between the
handheld and the office computer. For more information, see Connecting to an office computer,
page 23.
l Writing. Use your finger or a stylus like a pen to write directly on the screen.
l Typing. Use the keyboard input panel to enter typed text by tapping keys on the on-screen
keyboard.
l Recording. Create a recording.
Using the menus
The Android mobile technology platform has two kinds of menus:
l Options menus contain tools that apply to the activities of the current screen or app, not to any
specific item on the screen. To open options menus, press the Menu icon . Not all screens have
options menus. Some screens have more options menu items than can fit in the main menu; tap
More to open a menu of additional items. Options menus contain items that apply to the current
screen or to the app as a whole.
l Context menus contain tools that apply to a specific item on the screen. To open a context menu,
tap-hold an item on the screen. Not all items have context menus. If you tap-hold an item that has
no context menu, nothing happens.
Using the on-screen keyboard
In some apps, the keyboard appears automatically. In others, it appears when you tap in a text entry
field.
l If you tap in a text field which already contains text, the cursor is inserted at the point where you
tapped and the insertion point tab appears. To move the insertion point, drag the insertion point by
its tab.
l Select a word, or several words at a time, to copy, cut, and paste text. See Editing text below.
l Tap the required keys on the screen 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 are typing is
underlined in the text field and the suggestions appear in the strip above the keyboard. You can tap-
hold on the strip to display additional suggestions; to select a suggested word, tap it.
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Tap the Delete key to delete characters to the left of the cursor.
l To enter numbers, tap the ?123 key. To return to letters, tap ABC.
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