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1.10 Text input
You can enter and edit text in text fields and use menu commands to cut, copy, and paste text,
within or across applications.
1.10.1 Using onscreen keyboard to enter text
Touch a text field where you want to enter text to open the onscreen keyboard. The following
tips will help you to enter text more efficiently.
1. Touch and hold the text field to switch the input method if necessary.
2. Touch the keys on the keyboard to start typing. The following section takes the
Android keyboard as an example.
− When you are typing, the characters you have entered appear in a line above the
keyboard, and some with suggestions for the word you are typing to the right. Press
space or a punctuation mark to enter the suggestion by default, or touch another
suggestion to enter it. You can touch and hold the leftmost word to save it to the
dictionary.
− Touch the up arrowhead key (Shift key) once to capitalize the next letter you type.
Or touch and hold the up arrowhead key (Shift key) for all caps.
− When you touch a key, a larger version displays briefly over the keyboard. Keys
with alternate characters display an ellipsis (...) below the character.
− Touch and hold a vowel or the C, N, S, or Y key to open a small window where you
can touch an accented vowel or other alternate letter.
− Touch and hold the Period key ( . ) to open a small window with a set of common
symbol keys.
− Touch the DEL key to erase a character to the left of the cursor. Touch and hold the
DEL key to erase all characters to the left of the cursor.
− Touch the Symbols key (?123) to switch to the numbers and symbols keyboard,
and touch the alphabet key (ABC) to switch back.
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