As is available probably discovered by now, the iPad keyboard has to get a bit creative to suit all the keys you need on a small patch of glass. But let's face it, when you are trying to finish a contact message, jumping around between keyboard layers to find an ampersand or apostrophe gets old fast. To help balance economy and efficiency, Apple built in a number of keyboard shortcuts and tricks to help you out of trouble.
Web addresses. When you type a web address in Safari, the laptop keyboard helpfully adds keys for commonly used characters. For example, you get a slash, underscore, hyphen, and, best of all, a .com button. Not seeing a .com address? Press and contain the .com button to get your selection of .edu, .org, or .net, and slide your finger to the one you want. When you finish, tap the Go button.
Bad aim. Finger on the wrong key? If you haven't lifted your digit off the screen yet, slide it over to the correct one and let go.
Instant apostrophes. The iPad fills in the apostrophe on many contractions for you personally, so if you type cant, the tablet corrects it with can't.
Accented characters. Need an accented letter, say, an é instead of a plain old e? Press and contain the e character to reveal a whole bunch of accented choices. Slide your finger to select the one you need. This trick creates most letters that take accent marks.
Punctuation. Apple's press-and-slide trick works in a few other places as well. Need an apostrophe instead of that comma key on the main keyboard? Press the comma and slide. Need an ampersand such as the want to tap all the way into the „ keyboard? Press the „ key and slide over to it without taking your finger off the keyboard - or needing to switch back to the ABC keyboard.
Auto-correction. The iPad's dictionary tries to automatically correct typos and spelling errors as you tap along. If you want to accept the suggested correction for a word you just typed, hit the space bar and carry on. Don't agree with the iPad?
Tap the word to reject the suggested correction. Proper nouns often make the iPad's dictionary overeager to help, but if you reject its suggestions enough times, it eventually learns what you want. In some programs, words the iPad is still suspicious about get underlined in red; tap these phones see alternate spelling suggestions.
Auto-Capitalization. Whenever you turn this setting on, the iPad automatically capitalizes the first letter over time.
Enable Caps Lock. If you Need TO TYPE LIKE THIS FOR A While, flip on this setting. Now, when you double-tap the Shift (L) key, it turns blue and keeps capitalizing before you tap it again to turn it off.
"." Shortcut. With this particular setting turned on, you just have to double-tap the space bar at the conclusion of a sentence to automatically end it having a period and move one space ahead to start your next sentence having a capital letter.
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