The Basics
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Using the Android keyboard
You enter text using the onscreen keyboard. Some applications
open the keyboard automatically. In others, you touch a text field
where you want to enter text to open the keyboard.
You can also enter text by speaking instead of by typing.
To enter text
1. Touch a text field.
The onscreen keyboard opens.
2. Touch the keys on the keyboard to type.
The characters you've entered appear in a predictive word
box above the keyboard, with suggestions for the word you
are typing. Touch the arrow to view more suggestions.
3. Enter text into the text field.
Touch the word you want as soon as it appears in the
predictive word box.
Touch the Space Key
the predicted word.
Touch another word in the predictive word box.
Continue touching letters until the word appears in the
predictive word box.
See 'Swype Advanced Settings' on p38 to know
how to set the suggestion function.
Touch once to capitalize the next letter you type.
Touch and hold for all caps.
Touch space or a punctuation
mark to enter the red
suggestion.
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or a punctuation key to enter