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Arrow keys anyone???

Where are the arrow keys on the IPAD keyboard?

iPad, iOS 4

Posted on Jan 17, 2011 6:30 PM

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Jan 18, 2011 6:49 PM in response to J.Neechie

The actual answer is that there are no arrow keys that allow you to move up, down, left or right when typing with the iPad keyboard. There are keyboards that you can buy to use with your iPad that may offer that function to you.

You can search the web for iPad compatible keyboards that you can purchase.

But the other posters make sense in that you can position the cursor wherever you want with a touch of your finger. It works much better when you zoom in so that you can make the text and the spaces in between words and letters much larger.

Jan 19, 2011 2:14 PM in response to J.Neechie

Zoom way in and make the text field really large. One other trick to this is that a very light touch works so much better than a heavy hand. It may sound like an elementary thing to a lot of people, but typing, selecting an insertion point, etc. works so much better for me with a light touch on the display.

Jan 20, 2011 7:40 AM in response to Tamara

How can an arrow key be faster? Say I type something and the fascist iPad spell checker changes it to something else, and I want to delete a single character. I touch in the desired word and end up one character to the left of where I want, so what is quicker, zoom in, touch again, zoom out, and backspace, or just arrow key right and backspace. There is absolutely no way you can honestly think the zoom zoom option is better or faster.

Jan 20, 2011 8:06 AM in response to Jaywalker5555

Apple makes two keyboards for the iPad, both with arrow keys if you need them. Third party blue-tooth keyboards may work as well.

Or you could just chuck the iPad and get a laptop...the 11" Air is sweet.

Jan 20, 2011 8:24 AM in response to Tamara

Interesting. My iPad shows a cursor. And it shows up where ever I touch if I touch the screen while I am typing.
Say for instance that I type "toodles" and spellcheck changes it to "toddles". I try to touch between the two d. If i succeed, i backspace once and type "o" and don't let spell change it back to the word I don't want.

If I miss, and hit before the "o" or after the second "d" I have to touch again to get to the right location - vs just using an arrow key to slide over one character - backspace over the undesired character then type the right one.

And the suggestion someone made to "just type" was simply foolish. I didn't want "tooddles" or "tododles" did I, which is exactly what I get if I just type...

You people are using the same type of iPad as me, right? The point is somewhat moot, as an arrow key would clearly help anyone wanting to navigate a space or two.

Arrow keys anyone???

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