Type on iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3: tips and tricks

The best secrets on iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 typing Bluetooth keyboard pairing and virtual keyboard on iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 The following situation happens some time. You launched you favorite word processing app on iPad / iPad2 / iPad 3, start typing but nothing happens. The hint may be in the Bluetooth symbol at the top of iPad / iPad2 screen. If you have pared iPad / iPad 2 with Bluetooth keyboard or put it into iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 keyboard dock the onscreen virtual keyboard won’t work for ipad / ipad2 / iPad 3 believes you are using a hardware keyboard. To use virtual onscreen keyboard unpair Bluetooth keyboard first or disconnect keyboard that physically attached. You can also press on the physical keyboard Eject key to launch virtual keyboard. To unpair Bluetooth keyboard do the following: Tap Settings from the Home Screen Tap General on the left-half of the main Settings screen. Tap Bluetooth on the right-half of the main Settings screen. Set Bluetooth Off ( or tap the Connected and tap forget this device) Tap grey Bluetooth arrow-button (at the top) to return to Bluetooth menu. Tap grey General arrow-button (at the top) to return to main Settings menu. Press Home button to return to the Home screen. Now you can use virtual iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 keyboard while typing. Shake iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 to undo / redo iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 may facilitate you typing if you shake the device to undo / redo the last one . To do this: Shake an iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 if you want to delete the last typing (word, sentences etc.) you made in any app ( Notes, Pages, QuickOffice, Safari, Opera, you name it). Notice Undo Typing dialog window which appears Choose Undo Typing. Your typing will disappear. If you want to redo shake iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 again. Notice Redo Typing dialog window. Choose Redo Typing. Your typing will arise again Cut, Copy, Paste text on iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 In your iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 app locate a piece of text you wish to copy. Double tap it Notice the blue bounded box around the whole text (or around part of it) and a tool-tip to copy. You can move the selection by dragging the blue dots. Move it to encompass all the text you wish to copy. Tap copy. Now you can paste this text at any place of either the same app or any other app you have on iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3. To do this: Tap in a body of app where you want to place the text you just copied. Notice the Paste Tool tip that appears. Select the Paste. Special Accent Characters on iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 Any time you typing with keyboard on iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 the special accent characters are available. To get accent you desire tap and hold for a while the letter you wish to modify. This will reveal special accent characters. Just about any letter that can use an accent has this option. Here are the list of characters that have accent: “e”, “y”, “u”, “i”, “o”, “a”, “s”, “l”, “z”, “c”, “n” and “m”. Try it. Arabic, Persian or Urdu on iPad / iPad 2/ iPad3 The default keyboard layout on your iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 is English. But if you wanna type in Arabic you can do this by adding the additional Arabic keyboard. To do this: Tap Settings from the Home screen. Tap General on the left-half of the main Settings screen. Tap Keyboard on the right-half of the main Settings screen. Tap International Keyboards. Tap Add Keyboard… Tap Arabic (move up-down keyboard menu to find it). Tap grey Keyboard arrow-button (at the top) to return to Keyboard menu. Tap grey general arrow-button (at the top) to return to main Settings menu. Press Home button to return to the Home screen Now you can type in Arabic. To do this , when you launch virtual keyboard in any of your apps tap the international button ( with the globe symbol) just at the left corner of its buttom. Then, select the Arabic language and start typing. Unfortunately iPad / iPad 2 / iPad 3 has neither Persian nor Urdo in international keyboards listings. These languages adds some extra symbols to Arabic script. Nevertheless you can download from App Store the Persisch - a dedicated app capable for writing notes in Persian and Urdo. So, you can share your native words with others. Split virtual keyboard If your iPad / iPad 2 is updated to iOS 5 you can spit its virtual keyboard into two parts for faster typing with your thumb. To split virtual keyboard on iPad / ipad 2 / iPad 3 follow these steps: Tap Settings from the Home Screen. Tap General on the left-pane of the main Settings screen. In the right pane tap Keyboard. In the Keyboard pane set Split Keyboard into ON. Tap grey General arrow-button (at the top) to return to main Settings menu. Press Home button to return to the Home screen. Now you can split virtual keyboard: Tap and hold the Keyboard button at the bottom-right corner of the virtual keyboard. Tap split in the dialog box appeared and watch the keyboard splitting into two parts that move up. To merge split parts of keyboard into organic whole tap and hold the Keyboard button. Tap Dock and Merge. The new iPad aka iPad 3 adds one more option for typing with the use of your mouth. But first thing in the morning you should enable this feature: Tap on Settings On the Settings submenu tap General Scroll down the General submenu (right half of the window) to find Keyboard. Tap on Keyboard On the Keyboard submenu find Dictation. Set Dictation to ON Tap Enable to Agree to Apple's privacy politics Tap Done Use five-finger gesture to return to home screen. From now on at the bottom of the virtual keyboard there will be a key with microphone image on it. Tap that key and start to type dictating into ipad's 3 build-in microphone. Tap this key again to finish. 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