Using the onscreen keyboard

When you start an app or select a field that requires text or numbers, the onscreen keyboard becomes available. After entering your text, you can tap

or press

to close the onscreen keyboard.

Selecting a keyboard layout

You can choose from three different keyboard layouts to suit your typing style.

Tap Keyboard types, and then select the keyboard layout that you want to use.

Standard	This layout is similar to a desktop computer keyboard. This is the default keyboard layout.
Phone	This layout resembles the traditional mobile phone keypad.
Compact	This layout features two letters on each key. The key size is slightly bigger than on the Standard layout.

Simply tap the keys on the onscreen keyboard to enter letters and numbers, as well as punctuation marks and symbols.

Tap to enter an uppercase letter. Tap twice to turn on caps lock.
Press and hold keys with gray characters at the top to enter numbers, symbols, or accented letters. The gray character displayed on the key is the character that will be inserted when you press and hold that key. Some keys have multiple characters or accents associated with them.

If multiple keyboard languages are available on HTC Incredible S, you can choose which languages to enable in the onscreen keyboard.

While the onscreen keyboard is open, tap .
Tap Settings > International keyboard.
Choose the languages you want.
Note: Available languages depend on the region where you purchased HTC Incredible S.

While the onscreen keyboard is open, tap .
Choose the language you want to use for typing.
Note: If there are only two languages selected for use with the onscreen keyboard, tapping directly switches between the two languages.

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Entering words with predictive text

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