On-Screen Keyboard - Nokia N Series User Manual

On-screen keyboard

• Tabulator key (1)—Adds a tabulator space or moves the
cursor to the next available text input field.
• [Caps] (2)—Locks the uppercase characters of the
keyboard. In the handwriting recognition mode,
switches between the normal and special character
recognition modes.
• Shift key (3)—Allows you to enter an uppercase
character in the on-screen keyboard mode when you
write in lowercase. When you tap this key in the
handwriting recognition mode, the last lowercase
character switches to uppercase, and vice versa.
• Input menu key (4)—Opens the text input menu, which
includes commands such as
You can also access the text input settings from the
text input menu.
• On-screen keyboard (5)
• Space bar (6)—Inserts a space. This area also shows
word completion.
Edit > Copy, Cut, and Paste.
• Numeric keyboard (7)—When you press the shift key,
the most common special characters are displayed in
this area.
• Backspace key (8)—Deletes the character to the left of
the cursor.
• Enter key (9)—Moves the cursor to the next row or text
input field. Additional functions are based on the
current context (for example, in the web address field
of the web browser, it acts as a go button).
• Special character key (10)—Opens a view, in which you
can select from commonly used special characters,
symbols, and language character accents.
• Close (11)—Closes the on-screen keyboard and
handwriting recognition input area.
To use handwriting gestures on top of the on-screen
keyboard, do the following:
Draw gesture 1 for a
backspace or gesture 2
for a space. Draw gesture
3 on a letter to switch
between uppercase and
lowercase letters or
gesture 4 to add a line
break.
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