Chapter 3
Text Typing and Editing
In This Chapter
Typing on the onscreen keyboard
Accessing special characters
Editing text
Selecting, cutting, copying, and pasting text
Dictating text
Controlling the tablet with your voice
The topic is communications. How do you, a human, communicate with the Nexus 7, which is essentially a flat piece of electronics concealed behind a sheet of glass? Unlike communicating with other humans, you can’t poke the Nexus 7 with a sharp stick or hit it with a rock to get its attention. Nope, you have to be more clever than that.
Communicating with the Nexus 7 involves the interesting prospect of typing on a touchscreen. A modicum of text editing is required as well, though I doubt that anyone would write a novel on the Nexus 7. Finally, there’s the useful dictation feature. The Nexus 7, like some of your fellow humans, understands the words you utter. It’s ...
