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Old 05-28-2010, 11:36 PM   #178
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
Thanks for that. The one I typed on in the local Apple store seemed at least to be better than the Kindle keyboard or the Sony Touch virtual keyboard, but that isn't saying much. The e-ink keyboards, both touchscreen and virtual, are fine for taking notes, but aren't exactly ideal for long-term typing sessions. I was hoping that the iPad would be better, and I suppose for one-handed typing, it is.
Get an Apple blue tooth keyboard. It's small, lightweight, & a delight to use. I can't see that it would be any problem to carry around when you need it, & you can just leave it at the office when you don't.

I suspect that, using a BTK & the iPad, the experience will be a lot like using the simplified wordprocessing programs that many people view as being better for composing than something complicated like Word. After composing, you can dump the file into Word to do the footnoting, indexing, &c.

What I don't know is how extensive the keyboard combinations are for the iPad. You might be able to program the symbols &c that you need into the BTK.

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