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2.2 Using the Touch Keyboard
The Touch Keyboard is a type of on-screen keyboard which features 20
keys. With its large, touch-friendly keys and enhanced features such as XT9
predictive input, you can enter text faster and more accurately.
• Tap to enter letters
or symbols.
• Tap and hold
to enter a
punctuation mark,
symbol, or number
that appears on the
upper right corner
of a key
• Tap to enter an
uppercase letter.
• Tap twice to turn
on Caps Lock.
Tap to cycle through the input modes:
XT9, Multitap (
abc
), and
Numeric
(
123
). The keyboard changes to a
numeric keypad when in numeric
mode.
Tap to open the Symbol pad.
See “Using Symbol Pad.”
Tap to create
a new line.
Tap to delete the
previous character.
Displays the word
candidate list in XT9
mode. Tap a word
to insert it into your
text. Tap
to add
a word to the XT9
dictionary.
To enter text using the Touch Keyboard
1. Start a program that accepts text input, such as Word Mobile.
2. Tap the Input Selector arrow, then tap Touch Keyboard.
3. On the last row of the Touch Keyboard, tap the second key from the
left to cycle through these input modes: XT9, Multitap, or Numeric.
See “XT9 mode”, “Multitap mode”, and “Numeric mode” to learn how to
enter text with these modes.