Motorola MOTOXT897 manual Google Voice Typing, Tips for Editing Text

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nTo enter several symbols, touch +!=.

nTo enter apostrophes in common words (like “I’ll”), drag through the apostrophe key.

nTo correct a word, double-tap it. Swype shows a small menu of other word options. Swype might also show a menu if it cannot guess your word.

nIf Swype does not know a word, touch individual letters to enter it. Swype remembers, so next time you can just drag over the letters.

Google Voice Typing

Google Voice typing uses Google voice recognition to convert speech to text.

You can access Google Voice option by touching a text field to open a touchscreen keyboard, then touching the microphone icon .

Tips for Editing Text

Your phone gives you many options to make entering text easier, including copying, cutting, and pasting text, using voice-to-text input, customizing the user dictionary, using predictive text, and more.

 

To…

 

Instructions

 

Enter alternate characters

On the QWERTY keyboard, press

Shift and the

 

 

desired key. On the Android touchscreen keyboard, touch

 

 

and hold the letter to enter the associated number, or

 

 

touch

?123 to enter numbers or

=\< to enter

 

 

symbols.

 

 

Enter one capital letter

Touch

Shift.

 

 

 

 

Enter only capital letters, until you

Touch

Shift twice. Touch again to revert to

touch

Shift again

lowercase.

 

Select text

Touch and hold text to select it.

 

Or, when viewing a Web page or received message, touch and hold text until you see two bookend cursors. Drag the cursors to either end of the text to select. Touch the selected text for more options.

Cut or Copy selected text

Touch and hold text to select a word. To select all text,

 

touch Select All.

 

 

Then select

Cut or

Copy.

Move the cursor

Touch where you want to move the cursor. When you see

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