Tip: On Screen Keyboard iPad

When you first use the iPhone / iPad, Onscreen Keyboard looks small. Small but not that hard to use! The following tips will show you how you can use the Onscreen Keyboard better.

Type in CAPITAL LETTERS

If you want to type a sentence / full message in large letters, press the [SHIFT] twice. Button will change to blue. Now all the letters you type will be in uppercase. Press the [SHIFT] again when finished. If you can not use this feature, maybe it is switched off. To activate the Caps Lock, select Settings> General> Keyboard> Enable Case> ON.

Hide the onscreen keyboard

To hide the keyboard, tap the small icon that looks like a keyboard with the down arrow on the bottom right. This will hide the keyboard so you can see more clearly what you're typing.

Using a Magnifying Glass

Press and hold your finger on some text to bring up a magnifying glass. Drag the magnifying glass and moving around. You can also display a magnifying box to select text.

Shortcut Editing with onscreen keyboard

Press twice to select a word. He will highlight the text in blue and gives a blue dot on both sides. When you drag the blue dot, a magnifying box will appear to give a higher accuracy when highlighting text.

Press 4 times faster to copy the entire paragraph and select Cut or Copy as you see fit. Click the place you want to place it and then select Paste.

To type a dot quickly, press the space bar twice and a dot followed by a space will be inserted automatically. If you can not use this feature, maybe it is switched off. To activate the shortcuts, select Settings> General> Keyboard> Shortcuts ; ON.

If you see a red dotted underline a word when typing, you can press it and substitute the words will appear automatically. Spell checker is useful for checking spelling as you type documents. To activate the Spell Checker, select Settings> General> Keyboard> Check Spelling> ON.

Select a word by pressing two times, to bring up the option Advise and iPad will display the words that you can choose a replacement.

If you can not use this feature, maybe it is switched off. To turn Auto-Correction, select Settings> General> Keyboard> Auto-Correction> ON. Do not type the quotation marks for common words like "can not, will not, do not etc.. For example, just type "cant" and the iPad will add quotes automatically (can not).

To display the definition of a word, press the right arrow on the options bar that appears above the words and select Definition. The definition of those words appear.