Contractions: Swype recognizes most words that include an
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apostrophe, just swype the letters of the word, including the
apostrophe.
Punctuation: Touch and hold a key to view a punctuation menu and
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make a selection.
Accented characters: Just glide through the letters of the word.
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Swype usually recognizes the word and correctly accents the letters.
Error correction: If you make a mistake, double-tap on the word you
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want to change. Then touch the delete key to erase one character.
Touch and hold the delete key to erase an entire word.
Configuring Swype
Configure Swype to your preferences.
For more information, refer to "Swype Settings" on page 133.
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While entering text, touch
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Swype Help
While entering text, you can get tips and help about using Swype.
Touch
Swype to show Tips. Touch More on This? to see more.
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Touch
Swype
Tutorial for an interactive tutorial.
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Swype
Options.
Entering Symbols and Numbers
Using the Swype Keyboard:
Touch and hold on a key to enter the symbol or number at the top of
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the key.
Touch and hold on a key until a menu of all characters available on that
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key appears, then touch a character to enter it.
For more symbols, touch
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key.
Touch
Symbols to switch to the numeric and symbols
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keyboard and quickly enter numbers, mathematical operators
and additional symbols.
Touch
Alphabetic to display the alphabetic keyboard.
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Using Swype Speech Recognition
Enter text by speaking. Swype recognizes your speech and
enters text for you.
Touch
. At the Speak now prompt, speak the text you
want to enter.
Shift, then touch the corresponding
Entering Text
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