iPad All-in-One For Dummies. Nancy C. Muir
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Название: iPad All-in-One For Dummies

Автор: Nancy C. Muir

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Зарубежная образовательная литература

Серия: For Dummies

isbn: 9781118944424

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СКАЧАТЬ finger quickly on the page to scroll more quickly.

      6. Tap and hold your finger on text that isn’t a link.

      The word is selected, and a contextual menu appears, as shown in Figure 2-8. Its options include Define and Copy.)

      7. Release your finger.

      8. Tap and hold your finger on a link or an image.

      A contextual menu appears with commands that allow you to open the link or picture, open it in a new page, add it to your Reading List (see Chapter 6 in this minibook), or copy it. The menu also offers the Save Image command.

      9. Put two fingers slightly apart on the screen and then pinch them together to reduce the page.

      10. Press the Home button to go back to the Home screen.

      Figure 2-8: Copy text and paste it into an email or document using the Copy tool.

       Displaying and using the onscreen keyboard

      Part of the beauty of iPad is that it’s highly portable, but that portability comes at a price: the absence of a physical keyboard. You can use a wireless or Bluetooth keyboard, but for short text entry, you don’t really need either. That’s where the onscreen keyboard comes into play, allowing you to enter text as you may have done on a touchscreen mobile phone.

      

iPad’s built-in keyboard appears whenever you’re in a text-entry location, such as in a Search field or when writing an email. With the debut of iOS 8, iPad makes suggestions based on the words you enter in the keyboard in the new QuickType bar above the keyboard, and can even recognize the person you’re typing a message to when you’re in Mail or Messages so that those suggestions are appropriate to the tone you might use with that recipient.

      Follow these steps to practice using the onscreen keyboard:

      1. Tap Notes on the Home screen to open this easy-to-use notepad.

      2. Tap the blank note or, if you’ve already entered notes, tap one to open it.

      The note appears.

      3. Tap in the text of the note.

      The onscreen keyboard appears.

      4. Type a few words using the keyboard.

      You can tap the Dictation key on the keyboard (see Figure 2-9) to activate the Dictation feature, and then speak your input. This requires that the Siri feature be turned on and an active Internet connection because the translation is done on Apple’s servers.

      To get the widest keyboard display possible, rotate your iPad to be in landscape (horizontal) orientation, as shown in Figure 2-9.

      Figure 2-9: The onscreen keyboard is handiest to use in landscape orientation.

      5. If you make a mistake (and you may when you first use it), use the Delete key (the key in the top-right corner of the keyboard with a little x on it) to delete text to the left of the insertion point.

      6. To create a new paragraph, press the Return key, just as you would on a computer keyboard.

      7. To type numbers and some symbols, press one of the number keys (labeled .?123) located on either side of the spacebar (refer to Figure 2-9).

      Characters on the keyboard change. To return to the letter keyboard at any time, simply tap one of the letter keys (labeled ABC) on either side of the spacebar.

      

If you type a number in the number/symbol keyboard and then tap the spacebar, the keyboard automatically returns to the letter keyboard.

      8. Use the Shift keys just as you would on a regular keyboard to type uppercase letters.

      Tapping the Shift key once causes just the next letter you type to be capitalized.

      9. Double-tap the Shift key to turn on the Caps Lock feature so that all letters you type are capitalized until you turn the feature off.

      Tap the Shift key once to turn it off.

      You can control whether this feature is available in Settings, in the General pane’s Keyboard section.

      1. To type a variation on a symbol (for example, to get alternative currency symbols when you hold down the dollar sign on the numeric keyboard), tap and hold the key until a set of alternative symbols appears (see Figure 2-10).

      

Note that displaying variations on symbols works only on some symbols.

      Figure 2-10: Only some symbols offer alternatives when you press and drag them.

      1. Tap the Dictation key (refer to Figure 2-9) to activate the Dictation feature, and then speak your input.

      This works in several apps, such as Mail, Notes, and Maps. Tap the Dictation key again (or tap in the note) to turn off the Dictation feature.

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Tap the Emoji key (a smiley face symbol to the left of the Dictation button) to display and select from a set of smiley symbols to insert in your document. Tap tabs along the bottom to display other graphic icon sets such as pictures from nature or city skylines.

      2. To hide the keyboard, press the Keyboard key in the bottom-right corner.

      3. Tap the Home button to return to the Home screen.

      

You can unlock the keyboard to move it around the screen. To do this, press and hold the Keyboard button on the keyboard and, from the pop-up menu that appears, choose Unlock. Now by pressing the Keyboard button and swiping up or down, you can move the keyboard up and down on the screen. To dock the keyboard again at the bottom of the screen, press and hold the Keyboard button and choose Dock from the pop-up menu. (For this to work, go to Settings and be sure to enable Split Keyboard in the Keyboard section of the General pane.)

      

To type a period and space, double-tap the spacebar. (For this to work, go to Settings and enable "." Shortcut in the Keyboard section СКАЧАТЬ