Section 3: Entering Text, QWERTY Keyboard, Text Input Methods

This section describes how to enter words, letters, punctuation, and numbers when you need to enter text.

QWERTY Keyboard

By default, your tablet provides an on-screen QWERTY keyboard for text entry called the Samsung keyboard. You can use the Samsung keyboard to enter letters, punctuation, numbers, and other characters into text-entry fields or applications. You access the keyboard by touching any text- entry field.

The keyboard displays at the bottom of the screen. By default, when you rotate the device, the screen orientation updates to display the keyboard at the bottom of the screen.

Text Input Methods

Your device offers three text input methods.

•Google voice typing: You can use your voice to enter text using the Voice input feature. Your device recognizes your speech and enters text for you. (For more information, refer to “Using Speech Recognition” on page 55.)

•Samsung keyboard: The Samsung keyboard is an on-screen QWERTY keyboard that lets you enter text by touching keys on the screen. The Samsung keyboard includes Predictive text, which matches your key touches to common words so that you can select the word to enter it into your text.

•Swype: Swype is an on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard that lets you enter text by tracing over each letter of a word.