Using the onscreen keyboard, Enter text by typing, Using the onscreen keyboard 46 – Google ANDROID AUG-3.0-100 User Manual

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Entering and editing text

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AUG-3.0-100

Android User’s Guide

Using the onscreen keyboard

You can enter text using the onscreen keyboard. Some apps open the keyboard
automatically. In others, you touch a text field where you want to enter text to open
the keyboard.

The onscreen keyboard has a number of settings, as described in “Language &
input settings” on page 134
. You can also open the Android keyboard settings by
touching the Settings key

.

You can enter text by speaking instead of by typing. See “Entering text by
speaking” on page 50.

Enter text by typing

S

Touch a text field to open the keyboard.

The onscreen keyboard opens.

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

Touch the Shift key once to capitalize the
next letter you type. Double-tap for ALL
CAPS.

Touch space or a punctuation mark to
enter Android’s best guess at the word
you mean to enter.

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