Sony C6902, C6903, C6906 manual Typing text, On-screen keyboard

Typing text

On-screen keyboard

You can enter text with the on-screen QWERTY keyboard by tapping each letter individually, or you can use the Gesture input feature and slide your finger from letter to letter to form words. You can type in up to three Latin languages without switching keyboards. The Xperia™ international keyboard detects the language and predicts the words as you type. Some applications open the on-screen keyboard automatically, for example, email and text messaging applications.

1Delete a character before the cursor.

2Enter a carriage return or confirm text input.

3Enter a space.

4Personalise your keyboard. This key disappears after the keyboard is personalised.

5Display numbers and symbols. For even more symbols, tap .

6Close the on-screen keyboard view. Note that this icon does not appear in portrait mode.

7Switch between lower-case , upper-case and caps . For some languages, this key is used to access extra characters in the language.

To display the on-screen keyboard to enter text

•Tap a text entry field.

To use the on-screen keyboard in landscape orientation

•When the on-screen keyboard is displayed, turn the device sideways.

You may need to adjust the settings in some applications to enable landscape orientation.

To enter text character by character

1To enter a character visible on the keyboard, tap the character.

2To enter a character variant, touch and hold a regular keyboard character to get a list of available options, then select from the list. For example, to enter "é", touch and hold "e" until other options appear, then, while keeping your finger pressed on the keyboard, drag to and select "é".

To enter a period

•After you enter a word, double-tap the space bar.

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