iPad: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition

Chapter 3. Interact with Your iPad

You’ll learn to:

• Control your iPad with finger moves

• Use keyboard shortcuts

• Dictate notes

• Cut, copy, paste, and spell-check text

• Print files

THESE DAYS, YOU FIND touchscreens everywhere: on automatic teller machines, plane- and train-ticket kiosks, and even in some fast-food joints. So the iPad’s touchscreen is pretty familiar territory for most people.

But using the iPad takes more than touch. You tap, you flick, you swipe, you double-tap, you drag, you press-and-hold. Which motion you make and when you make it depends on what you’re trying to do. And that’s where this chapter comes in.

Over the next few pages, you’ll learn how to do the digit dance so your iPad responds to your every command. And what could be easier or more direct than entering text into apps like Mail and Notes simply by talking? Yes, the latest model tablet even handles dictation, and you’ll learn how to have a meaningful conversation with your iPad here.

Before this chapter is over, you’ll also pick up a few keyboard shortcuts, learn how to find stuff fast on your ’Pad, and how to print out files you’ve been working on via text and voice input. So clear your throat and get those fingers limbered up by turning the page.

Finger Moves for the iPad

THE “BRAIN” BEHIND THE iPad—its operating system—is smart enough to respond to a series of very different touches. The ones you make depend on ...