Nokia N900 User Manual page 23

Use keyboard shortcuts
Press the ctrl key and the character.
Related topics
See "Word completion and dictionaries", p. 24.
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See "Use shortcuts", p. 24.
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Use the virtual keyboard
To use the virtual keyboard, make sure the physical keyboard
is closed, and select a text entry field, the web address field
of the browser, for example. The virtual keyboard needs to
be activated before you can use it.
Activate the virtual keyboard
Select Settings and
>
Select the Use virtual keyboard
The virtual keyboard keys are as follows:
— Switch between uppercase and lower case
characters.
— Enter numbers, additional characters, and common
symbols.
— Enter commonly used special characters, symbols, and
language character accents.
— Open the text input menu, which includes editing
options such as Cut, Copy, and
between the input languages, if you have defined them in the
text input settings.
Text input.
check box.
Paste . You can also switch
— Insert a line break.
— Delete the character to the left of the cursor.
— Close the virtual keyboard.
Switch between input methods
To switch between the virtual keyboard and the physical
keyboard, slide the touch screen up or down.
Switch keyboard layout
The physical keyboard layout can vary by region, but the
keyboard can still provide two different text input languages
at the same time.
Switch between input languages
Press the ctrl and space keys simultaneously. This also
switches the languages for the virtual keyboard.
Text input settings
1 Select Settings
>
2 Select from the following:
Hardware keyboard layout — Define the character set used
in the physical keyboard. Changing this setting may lead to
the physical keys not matching the hardware keyboard
layout.
Use virtual keyboard — Activate the virtual keyboard.
Word completion — Enable word completion.
Basic use
and Text input.
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