Virtual keyboard with initial fingertip experience

Quick text input on a touch screen is one of the highlights of the iPad. When you need to enter text, the virtual keyboard will automatically appear below the screen. The size of the horizontal iPad virtual keyboard is similar to that of the actual keyboard, which is very convenient to use.

Virtual Keyboard

First, we can open the iPad and go to "Settings" --> "general" --> "keyboard". We can see that all the special optimization settings, such as "Automatic Upper Letter of the first letter", have been enabled, you can make adjustments as needed.

Virtual Keyboard settings

You can also enter text on an external Apple wireless keyboard. When using an external keyboard, no virtual keyboard appears on the iPad screen.

Set the keyboard-> international keyboard-> Add a new keyboard-> emoticon, you can enable emoticon and hieroglyphics, You can input words to play special symbols, if you enter "Search", a symbol in the magnifier shape will appear. If you enter billiards, a billiards icon will appear.

Press the globe key on the virtual keyboard to switch the input language. Press and hold the button for a long time to bring up an input method selection menu. You can directly select the required input language.

Press the buttons on the keyboard to enter the corresponding letters. If the input is Chinese, select the correct text in the selection box above the keyboard.

When holding the iPad with both hands, you can press the keyboard icon in the lower right corner and select "split keyboard" to place the virtual keyboard on both sides of the screen for convenient thumb input. Of course, you can also set a split keyboard in the keyboard settings, go to "Settings"> "general"> "keyboard", and turn on the "split keyboard" switch.

 

Split open keyboard

Split the keyboard with your thumb

The brand new iPad also uses a very creative method to solve the problem of keyboard splitting. When you need to perform a hand-held operation, press and hold the keyboard with two thumbs to "Tear" the two sides ", the keyboard is divided into the left and right parts, so that you can easily input it with your thumb. If you need to restore the normal keyboard, use two fingers to "Spell" the split keyboard in the middle.

When you use the iPad to split the keyboard, you can see the letter T and Y, G and H, V and B are separated. During normal typing, if you need to input the three empty letters (such as GH) together, You need to cross about half the palm distance. But in fact, you can simply tap in the blank area next to it, and the other letter will also appear. That is to say, when the iPad keyboard is separated, six letter buttons are hidden. Although they are invisible at ordinary times, they can play a role.

Hidden six keys in the split keyboard

"Shift" key operation

1. At the bottom of the first page of the English keyboard, there is a "shift" key for the up arrow, one hand for "shift", and the other hand for the letter to enter uppercase letters

2. Click the "shift" key to turn the up arrow into blue. Then, the first button that you press will be in upper case, and then automatically switch back to lower case status.

3. if you want to enter consecutive uppercase letters, press the "shift" key twice, and the up arrow is all blue, so that the English or Chinese status is displayed, you can enter consecutive uppercase letters without having to press shift once.

Press the keyboard key to hide the screen keyboard.

After entering this article, double-click the space to automatically display the period. both the English and Chinese Input statuses apply.

Multiple forms of input of vowel letters

Vowels include A, E, I, O, and U. If you hold the letter in lower case or upper case, do not loosen the finger. There will be multiple types of letters, sometimes you can use it to make the text no longer monotonous, or use it for specialized input applications.

In addition to vowels, other symbols can also perform the same operation. If you press and hold it, more options will be displayed. Some symbols are available, and some do not. If you are interested, try again.

Multiple forms of input of vowels

Multiple Input formats of. com

When you enter the URL in the iPad browser, the virtual keyboard will be provided directly. com, but many domain names do not only need. com. For example, the domain name of Apple net is. CN, and. net /. org. If you choose to press the. com option with your fingers long, more options will appear on the top, and you will be able to move to the desired option and release your hand.

 

Multiple Input formats of. com

Quick Switch of symbol Input

After the text is entered, enter a symbol. Generally, we use the ".?" symbol in the lower left corner 「.? 123 "option first switch to the symbol, select the symbol, and then switch back to continue entering other text.

If you select 「.? 123 "option, do not loosen your finger, then the virtual keyboard screen has been switched to the symbol interface, your fingers have never been released, slide to the symbol you need, and then release your finger, after entering the required symbols, the virtual keyboard screen automatically jumps back to the text screen to continue inputting letters or Chinese characters. This function can save a lot of operations.

Comma and period input in English input status

In the English input state, there are multiple functions depending on the comma and period in the lower right. You can also enter single quotation marks as a comma and double quotation marks as a period.

There are two shortcut input methods: one is to press and hold the comma, do not let go, so that the quotation mark option appears above, then slide your finger to the quotation mark position to complete the input; the other method is more convenient, if you want to enter single quotes, point to a comma and quickly slide up and release the finger. In this way, the input to the text is a single quotation mark, and the double quotation marks are the same. Try it, but this technique is only valid in the English input state.

Cancel the input. You only need to shake the iPad and the Undo menu will pop up to conveniently cancel the entered text. When entering information through the screen keyboard, if the input is incorrect, you can shake the iPad body by force and a prompt will pop up to cancel the input.

Click "undo type" to undo the content you just entered, instead of pressing the delete key. Shake the body again. A prompt is displayed. Select "redo type" to restore the deleted content. If it was just pasted, shake the iPad body and you can "undo the paste ".

Text input

Because the fingers are relatively thick than the screen, the iPad provides a screen magnifier function to select the text on the screen more accurately. You only need to press a text to hide it. A Magnifier will appear on the screen and move the magnifier to select the text.

Text magnifiers

When you enter the text, if you realize that you have made a mistake, you either use your fingers to restore it to the previous place accurately, or you choose to use a magnifier. The magnifier function is used to place your finger in the correct area, and then the magnifier will appear, so that you can fine-tune your insertion point.

When you tap a word in text, a toolbar is displayed, including "select", "select all", and "Paste.

Shortcut toolbar for text input

Click the "select" button to select the content included by clicking the beginning and end of the sentence;

Click the "select all" button to select all text in this section;

After selecting a text, you can easily cut or copy the text by clicking the cut or copy button on the toolbar. Click on the screen to be pasted, and then click the paste button in the pop-up toolbar to insert the cut or copied text.

To copy a word on an iPad, you only need to double-click it, but if you need to copy a paragraph, You need to drag the annoying little blue dot. If you want to select a paragraph, you only need to edit the text area four times.

This article is excerpted from the book "easy to play (full color )"

Edited by happy life

Published by Electronic Industry Publishing House