7 Make your machine multilingual
If you work in multiple languages you can use the Symbol
keyboard by holding [Win], pressing [.] and tapping the Omega
symbol. But it’s often better to install the appropriate keyboard(s)
from Settings > Language > Install Language Features. This
enables you to swap between different languages’ keyboard
layouts by clicking the language icon near your Taskbar.
8 Experiment with accessibility
Windows 10 is packed with useful accessibility features, and
many of them control how the keyboard works. If you go into
Settings and search for Ease of Access Keyboard you can enable
features such as Sticky Keys, which makes it easier toaccess
keyboard shortcuts by enabling you to tap one keyata time, and
Filter Keys, which ignores brief or repeated keystrokes.QQ5
Use Autocorrect for symbols
Many kinds of writing require you to use symbols.
Commercial copywriting, for example, uses the copyright and
trade mark symbols a lot. If you’ve enabled Autocorrect in Word,
you can simply type the appropriate symbol between brackets
and Word turns it into the correct one – so for the copyright or
trade mark symbols, just type “(c)” or “(tm)” and then tap [Space].
3 Get suggestions everywhere
The typing suggestions don’t just appear when you’re
editing a document in an app. They appear anywhere that you
can type in text, so for example here we’re giving our untitled
document a name. With a hardware keyboard, use the up, left and
right arrow keys to select the suggestion you’d like to use and
then tap the Space Bar or Enter key. The mouse works here too.
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Crack the symbol code
Every letter, number and symbol has a four-digit number. If
you hold [Alt] and then type the number – the copyright symbol
is 0169, a paragraph symbol is 0244 and so on – the appropriate
symbol appears. This only works on keyboards with their own
dedicated number pads: if your numbers are at the top of your
keyboard those keys do other things when you hold [Alt].4 Add some fun emoji
Windows makes it easy to find the perfect emoji to cheer
up your casual writing. To display the Emoji keyboard, press
[Win] + [.], and the keyboard will pop up. If you keep typing, the
Emoji keyboard will suggest appropriate emoji; use the arrow
keys to select and [Enter] to confirm. For more on using emoji in
Windows 10, see p30.Explore
Master Windows’ text suggestions
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