Windows Help & Advice - UK (2020-04)

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Master text suggestions

while typing

“Windowscanspeedupyourtypingwith itsclever

suggestions,andthey’renotjustfortouch-screen

PCs.It canhelpwithsymbolsandevenemoji too.”

f you’veeverenteredtext

usinganXboxOnecontroller

orona smartphone’ssmall

screen,you’llknowthejoyoftext

suggestions:they’rea kindof

super-poweredassistancethattries

toguesswhatyou’retypingasyou

typeit.Forexampleif wetyped“Wi”

there’sa prettygoodchancethatthe

wordwe’regoingforis ‘Windows’;

withtextsuggestionswecouldtype

“Wi”andthenselect‘Windows’from

thelist.

It turnsoutthattextsuggestions

arejustaseffectiveonfully-featured

PCsastheyareonXboxesand

touchscreentablets.Unlessyoutype

with100%accuracyata million

wordsperminute,wethinkyou’llfind

typingsuggestionsenormously

helpful– sointhistutorialwe’llshow

youhowtoenablethem,howtouse

themandhowtouseWindows’other

featurestomakeyourtypingfaster

andmorefun.

1 Askforsomehelp

Text suggestionsaren’tjustfortabletsandothermobile

devices. YoucanhavethemforyourdesktoporlaptopPCtoo.To

enable them.GointoSettings> Devices> Typingandscrolldown

to HardwareKeyboard.YoucannowtogglethesettingsforShow

Text SuggestionsAsI TypeandAutocorrectMisspeltWordsI Type

on (or turnthemoffif theyannoyyou).

2 See the suggestions

We’ve brought up the on-screen keyboard here so you

can see what’s happening a bit more clearly (Settings > Ease of

Access > Keyboard > Use The On-Screen Keyboard). As we type,

Windows tries to work out what word we’re going for and

displays its suggestions in the row above the number keys. Just

select the correct one.

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Step-by-step Tame your typing in Windows 10

Anyonecandoit

Straightforward

Trickyin parts

Windows 10

Windows8.1

Windows^7

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