User's Manual

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Using the Keyboard
Enter and Edit Text
You can use the virtual Keyboard to enter text quickly
and easily. Type faster and more accurately on your
device with Keyboard’s word recognition and next-word
predictions.
The key features are:
• Personalized suggestions, corrections, and
completions
• Keypress popup animations
• Emoji entry point and layouts (Android 4.4+)
• Gesture Typing with dynamic oating preview
• Space-aware Gesture Typing
• Voice typing
• Advanced keyboard layouts
Gesture Typing
1. Touch the location where you want to type to open
the keyboard.
2. Slide your nger slowly across the letters of the
word you want to input.
3. Release your nger when the word you want is
displayed in the oating preview or in the middle of
the suggestion strip. To select one of the words in
the suggestion strip, tap on it.
Use Gesture Typing without the space bar
When you use Gesture Typing, there’s no need to use the
space bar—just continue to slide your nger across the
letters you want to input, then lift your nger to start the
next word.
Keyboard Dictionaries
To manage keyboard dictionaries,
1. From the Home or All Applications screen, tap on
Settings ( ).
2. Tap Language & Input located under Personal
settings.
Personal Dictionary
You can add your own words to your personal dictionary
so that your device remembers them.
To add a word or phrase, including an optional shortcut,
1. Tap on Language & Input located under Personal
settings.
2. Tap on Personal dictionary and then Add ( )
icon.
3. Add a required word and respective shortcut which
is optional.
4. Add a required word and respective shortcut which
is optional.
Add-on Dictionary
1. From the Home or All Applications screen, tap on
Settings ( ).
2. Tap on Language & Input located under Personal
settings.
3. Tap on Settings ( ) icon next to Android
Keyboard.