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WORKING WITH THE TOUCH-SCREEN
HOW DOES THE TOUCH-SCREEN WORK?
The touch-screen is a dual purpose interactive display and input
device. No keyboard or mouse is required to make selections or
write text.
Selecting on-screen icons:
You can touch icons or sections of the screen to make selections.
Switching between the text and numeric keypads:
There are three keypads - QWERTY, numeric/punctuation and
additional punctuation.
Entering text or numbers:
When you need to enter text or numbers a QWERTY keypad will
appear on-screen.
Typing:
You can touch-type on the keypad.
text entry
Changing screens or moving items:
You can also slide your finger across the screen to change screens
or move items.
From the text keyboard,
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touch the ?123 key to switch
to the numeric/punctuation
keyboard.
From the numeric/punctuation
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keyboard, touch the ~/{ key
to switch to the additional
punctuation keyboard
Touch the ABC key to return to
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the QWERTY keyboard.
or
Editing text in a text entry box:
Occasionally, you may want to correct the text entered in a text
entry box.
Correcting a letter:
Touch the text you are entering.
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A pointer will appear as shown in this Internet search example.
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Slide the pointer to the place you want to correct.
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Correct the text.
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Correcting a word:
Touch and hold the word you want to correct.
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The word will be highlighted.
Correct the word.
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