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Samsung GT-P6210 User Manual

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Auto-capitalization: Swype recognizes and capitalizes the first word

of sentences. If you want to capitalize a word that is not at the
beginning of a sentence, just glide above the keyboard before gliding
over the next letter.

Contractions: Swype recognizes most words that include an

apostrophe, just swype the letters of the word, including the
apostrophe.

Punctuation: Touch and hold a key to view a punctuation menu and

make a selection.

Accented characters: Just glide through the letters of the word.

Swype usually recognizes the word and correctly accents the letters.

Error correction: If you make a mistake, double-tap on the word you

want to change.

Configuring Swype

Configure Swype to your preferences.

For more information, refer to “Configure Input Methods” on

page 161.

While entering text, touch the

Swype Key

Options.

Swype Help

While entering text, you can get tips and help about using Swype.

Touch the

Swype Key to show Tips. Touch More Tips to see

more.

Touch the

Swype Key

Tutorial for an interactive tutorial.

Entering Symbols and Numbers

Using the Swype Keyboard:

Touch and hold on a key to enter the symbol or number at the top of

the key.

Touch and hold on a key until a menu of all characters available on that

key appears, then touch a character to enter it.

For more symbols, touch

Shift, then touch the corresponding

key.

Touch

to switch to the numeric keyboard and quickly enter

numbers and mathematical operators.

Touch

to switch to the symbols keyboard. Touch

to view

additional symbols.

Touch

to display the alphabetic keyboard.

Using Swype Speech Recognition

Enter text by speaking. Swype recognizes your speech and
enters text for you.

Touch

. At the Speak now prompt, speak the text you

want to enter.