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Windows 10 can display a touch keyboard onscreen. This feature is vital for devices that have a touchscreen and no physical keyboard. With a touchscreen, the touch keyboard appears automatically when the cursor (a blinking vertical bar) indicates that you can enter text in a box. If the touch keyboard doesn't appear automatically, you may also see a separate box floating above or below the text box. Tap that floating box to display the keyboard. To type using the keyboard, simply tap or click a letter, number, or symbol key.

Here are the different types of touch keyboards:

 The standard layout (also called QWERTY) appears automatically (see Figure 1-1). The Enter key changes depending on the context.

 The uppercase layout, shown in Figure 1-2, appears when you tap the Shift key on the standard layout.

 The numbers and symbols layout, shown in Figure 1-3, appears when you tap the &123 key on the standard layout. Tap the &123 key again to return to the standard layout.

 The control keys overlay (see Figure 1-4) appears on five keys on the standard layout when you tap the Ctrl key. The Ctrl keys are used in common tasks, such as copying (Ctrl+C) or moving (Ctrl+X) selected text. The overlay disappears automatically after you tap one of the control keys (A, Z, X, C, or V).

 The emoji layout, shown in Figure 1-5, appears when you tap the Smiley Face key. Tap the Smiley Face key again to return to the standard layout. (Emojis are also called emoticons or smileys.)

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To quickly enter an emoji without opening the touch keyboard, press + period (.). The emoji panel appears. Click or tap an emoji to enter it onscreen.

But wait! There's more. Tap the keyboard key, which is in the upper-left corner of any layout, to display the five options shown in Figure 1-6.

 Tap the Standard button (refer to Figure 1-6) to return to the standard layout from one of the other layouts.

 Tap the Narrow button to see a narrow keyboard suitable for thumb typing.

 Tap the Split button to view the split keyboard layout, shown in Figure 1-7. This layout is handy for typing with your thumbs while holding two sides of a tablet.

 Tap the Expanded button to view a keyboard with keys such as Tab, Caps Lock, and Shift that appear on a conventional keyboard.

 Tap the Handwriting button to view the handwriting layout, shown in Figure 1-8. This layout enables you to write with a finger or a stylus (a special pen). Windows converts your scribbles to block text (if it can make sense of your scribbles).

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The keyboard pop-up menu also offers buttons for widening or narrowing the keyboard on the bottom of the screen (refer to Figure 1-6).