Typing text, On-screen keyboard – Sony XPERIA Z3v User Manual

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Typing text

On-screen keyboard

You can enter text with the on-screen QWERTY keyboard by tapping each letter

individually, or you can use the Gesture input feature and slide your finger from letter to

letter to form words. If you prefer to use a smaller version of the on-screen keyboard and

input text using only one hand, you can activate the one-handed keyboard instead.
You can select up to three languages for text input. The keyboard detects the language

that you are using and predicts the words for that language as you type.

1 Delete a character before the cursor.

2 Enter a carriage return or confirm text input.

3 Enter text using voice input.

4 Enter a space.

5 Personalize your keyboard. This key disappears after the keyboard is personalized.

6 Display numbers and symbols. For even more symbols, tap

.

7 Switch between lower case , upper case and caps . For some languages, this key is used to

access extra characters in the language.

To display the on-screen keyboard to enter text

Tap a text entry field.

To use the on-screen keyboard in landscape orientation

When the on-screen keyboard is displayed, turn the device sideways.

You may need to adjust the settings in some applications to enable landscape orientation.

To enter text character by character

1

To enter a character visible on the keyboard, tap the character.

2

To enter a character variant, touch and hold a regular keyboard character to get a

list of available options, then select from the list. For example, to enter "é," touch

and hold "e" until other options appear, then, while keeping your finger pressed on

the keyboard, drag to and select "é."

To enter a period

After you enter a word, double-tap the space bar.

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