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There are typing suggestions. When you’ve typed the beginning

of a word that Windows can guess—lun, for example—a row of
AutoComplete suggestions appears above the keyboard, proposing
suggestions: lung, lunch, and luncheon, for example.

If one of those choices is indeed the word you wanted, tap it;

Windows inserts it into whatever you were typing. Once you get
used to this feature, you can save a lot of time and typos.

You can turn off the suggestions, if you like, in → →
Devices → Typing.

There’s a full 101-key PC keyboard layout, too. The standard
Windows 10 keyboard layout was designed to make the letter keys
big and easy to type. Microsoft chose to hide a lot of the other stuff
you’d find on a real keyboard, including numbers, Tab, Esc, and so

on.

But if you’d prefer an onscreen version of the real thing, Windows
can accommodate you. The standard drop-down menu of keyboard

layouts offers the full 101-key PC keyboard (Figure 12-9, bottom).

When you’re finished typing, tap the at the top right of the keyboard; it
goes away, returning the full screen area to your command.

Keyboard Settings

In → → Devices → Typing, you’ll find a raft of options that govern
the onscreen keyboard: “Show text suggestions as I type,” “Add a period
after I double-tap the Spacebar,” “Capitalize the first letter of each

sentence,” and so on. They’re described in detail on “Touchpad”.

In the meantime, note how easy it is to jump to these settings: Tap at
top left of the onscreen keyboard, and then .

Handwriting Recognition