Same with double-quotes: just tap and hold on the period, then slide on up to the double-quote mark. You can get an apostrophe from the ABC keyboard by pressing and holding on the comma key, then sliding up to the apostrophe. Using this press, hold, and slide method you can save yourself a trip to the numbers and punctuation keyboard just to get an apostrophe. There are many other keys (including the vowels) that will also pop up alternate symbols if you press and hold, so experiment a little and see what you can find. Now it’s easy to type “résumé” and “mañana” and “Löwenbräu.” (Extra Credit: use all three in a sentence). It’s easy to get an accented “e” in this manner– just hold the “E” key, slide up and over to the accented “e”, and then let go. The blue shows which symbol will be inserted if you let go without doing anything more. This picture shows the pop-ups you’ll get when you hold down the iPad’s “E” or the “N” or the comma or the period (dark gray keys). I wrote about typing accented characters on a Mac in a separate article. These shortcuts involve holding down a key on the iPad’s onscreen keyboard until a pop-up of other keys appears. Here are a bunch of nifty shortcuts that will have you typing accented characters, umlauts, Spanish punctuation (upside-down question marks, upside-down exclamation points) in no time.
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