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A few little tips to make typing on the iPad more efficient and easier.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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a couple ways you can make your iPad's
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virtual keyboard even more useful than
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before and these are couple different
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tips uh things that people don't really
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know about for the most part and they
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really can really streamline how you
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type things like that so to enable some
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of these features first of all you're
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going to go into
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settings and then from there you're
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going to scroll down and click on
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keyboard and in here you have a couple
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different options Auto capitalization
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auto correction check spelling enable
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caps lock and the period shortcut and I
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have these all turned on and if you want
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to really fully take advantage of what
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I'm going to show you here you'll need
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all these on so the next thing I'm going
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to do is bring up the keyboard and I'm
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going I'm going to go into Pages for
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that but it works with the Notes
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application you know whatever you have
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first thing is on the iPad when you want
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to put in a capital letter you either
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hit shift and then type your capital
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letter or if you're typing in everything
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in all caps you'd have to to hold down
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the shift button and then type what you
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want uh but say now once you have that
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uh shortcut turned on in settings all
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you have to do is double tap the shift
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key and you can see it highlights it
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blue and now you can type everything in
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capital letters and when you're done
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just hit it again and it'll go back to
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normal so that's a real Handy feature uh
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it's a lot easier than having to hold
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down this button and then trying to type
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that can be kind of cumbersome you know
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and it's it's not the easiest way to do
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things another thing you can do if
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you're typing a sentence so hello and
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you want to put in a period instead of
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hitting this period button what you can
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do is you can hit double tap the space
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bar it adds a period and puts in a space
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for you so then you can keep typing you
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know like you were before and it's it's
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that easy it really saves time you don't
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have to hit period and then space bar
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you can just double tap and you're on
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your way now let's say you're in a word
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and you want an apostrophe normally
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you'd have to hit the one two 3 button
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out in the corner and then hit the
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apostrophe key uh but with these
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settings enabled what you can do is if
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you flick up on the comma it'll insert
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apostrophe for you so normally I'd hit
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comma Now if I flick up there's an
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apostrophe there so just the easy way to
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insert apostrophes very easily and with
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the period key here you can do the same
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thing but uh with quotation marks if I
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flick up it'll give me quotation marks
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and that's one I think most people don't
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know at all it's probably the most
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hidden one apple never really talks
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about now the other thing is you don't
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really need to type apostrophes at all
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if you don't want to if you if you're
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fine with it then you know you can swipe
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up uh but there is an even easier way um
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you don't even have to put an apost so
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Sam typing can't I don't have to insert
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the apostrophe at all you can see the
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auto correct will take care of it and I
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can just hit space bar and it'll insert
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it for me so if you're used to going you
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know
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can't you don't really need to to do
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that you can just insert apostrophes
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with auto correct now there's another
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cool thing you can do here with symbols
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so normally if you wanted to do let's
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say an at symbol you'd be on your
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regular keyboard here and then you'd
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press the little one two three button
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and then hit at and then press the ABC
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to get back to your regular keyboard
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what you can do though is you can hold
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down the one two three button slide your
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finger over to the at and then it jumps
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right back for you to your regular
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keyboard this works for everything so
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one uh you know
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slash colon everything like that it
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works and you don't have to do all that
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extra work of going back and back for
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everything you do and that's really
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handy and this works for capital letters
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too so if you press on the shift key and
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slide up to a it'll put in a capital A
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for you and then go back to lowercase
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now for the next thing I'm going to show
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you I'm going to head over to
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Safari so here I am on a blank page in
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Safari and I'm in the URL bar going to
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type a web
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address let's say I'm going to go to
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Cult of Mac so Cult of Mac now normally
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here I would hit the com key and then go
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to the website but let's say the website
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doesn't end with well instead of having
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to type out.edu
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oops or you know net or whatever you
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normally type in if you hold down the
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com key you get a whole bunch of
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different options and I can go to
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org.net us or.edu just by holding
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down.com and then sliding up to whatever
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I wanted to so now.org and that's easy
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way to insert other things other
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thanom now the com key is not the only
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thing you can hold down for other
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letters let's say you wanted to type an
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a with an accent over it if you hold
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down the letter A you're going to see
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this little menu pop up and you have all
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these different options for letters of a
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so if I just hold up and slide over to
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the a with the accent it inserts that
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character for me automatically uh this
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works for all Vols so
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e
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i uh let's see let's put in that
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one
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o and youu and we can put in that one so
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there's a whole bunch of different
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options these are for vs s works as well
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there's a couple different things any
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keys that have special variations like
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accents or anything uh they have you can
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hold any keys that have accents or any
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letters that have accents or or things
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like that if you hold down on the key
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it'll pop up a menu and you can just
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slide to what you want of course this
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doesn't work for all letters like if I
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hold down R nothing's going to happen
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because there are no variations of R so
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this works with other Keys as well so I
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if I hold down the dollar sign key
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you're going to see I can get cents and
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you know the regular dollar sign pounds
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all different things uh different forms
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of
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currency I can hold down the zero and I
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can hit get degrees and I can hold down
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quotation marks for different styles of
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quotes and a lot of keys have this like
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and or the dash and these are symbols
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that you normally have to go into your
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third keyboard to find and a lot of them
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are listed here it's just shortcuts and
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an easier way to navigate on your
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keyboard with the iPad can save you a
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lot of time when you're typing if you
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know what you're doing so those are some
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iPad keyboard shortcuts that can make
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your typing faster more efficient and
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quite a bit easier once you know what to
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do so I hope you found this video useful
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and thank you for
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watching
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