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Typing text, On-screen keyboard – Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet SGP771 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 and moveable version of the on-

screen keyboard, you can activate the thumb keyboard or the mini keyboard instead.
You can select up to three languages for text input. The Smart language detection

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

access extra characters in the language.

4 Shift to the moveable thumb keyboard or the mini keyboard.

5 Enter a space.

6 Personalise your keyboard. This key disappears after the keyboard is personalised.

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

.

To display the on-screen keyboard to enter text

Tap a text entry field.

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.

To switch between the full keyboard and a smaller keyboard

1

When you enter text using the on-screen keyboard, tap

,

or

.

2

Select a keyboard.

Tap and hold , then drag it to move the small keyboard as desired.

To change the Gesture input settings

1

When the on-screen keyboard is displayed, tap .

2

Tap , then tap

Keyboard settings .

3

To activate or deactivate the Gesture input function, drag the slider beside

Gesture input to the on or off position.

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