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Figure 12-9. The onscreen keyboard has lots of tricks up its sleeve. When you hit the top-

left key, you get a drop-down menu of different keyboard styles (circled here).

Your options are, from top: normal keyboard; phone-style one-handed keyboard;
handwriting panel; split keyboard for tablets, especially one you’re holding with fingers
beneath, so you can tap with your thumbs; and the full “101-key” layout, complete with

symbols and control keys.

You even get a rogue’s gallery of emoticons, for when English just isn’t enough.

Its modifier keys are sticky. If you want to press Shift+D, for

example, or Ctrl+N, you don’t have to hold down the Shift or Ctrl
key. Just tap the modifier key (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) and then the letter

that goes with it.