If you’re running Excel 2019 on a device that lacks any kind of physical keyboard, you need to open the Touch keyboard and use it to input your spreadsheet data.
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To open the standard Touch keyboard, simply tap the Touch Keyboard button that appears on the right side of the Windows 10 taskbar. Doing this displays the Touch keyboard, docked at the bottom of the Excel program window, as shown in Figure 1-7.
Excel supports undocking the standard Touch keyboard so that it floats within the Excel 2019 program window as well as the selection of a different type of keyboard or supported language. To make any of these changes, tap the Touch Keyboard Settings button (the one with the cog on top of the keyboard icon) followed by one of the following options on its pop-up menu:
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Standard Keyboard to switch back to the standard docked Touch Keyboard after changing to one of the other styles»
Split Keyboard to change to split-keyboard arrangement that separates the letter keys into two banks of three rows starting with QWERT in the top row on the left and YUIOP in the top row on the right»
Mobile Keyboard to change to a much smaller floating version of the standard Touch keyboard that you can drag to reposition anywhere in the Excel program windowFIGURE 1-7:
Windows 10 touchscreen shown after displaying the standard Touch keyboard docked beneath the Excel 2019 program window.
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Inking Keyboard to switch to a keyboard that enables you to write out your Excel entries and edits with your pen (or finger) and then enter them by tapping its Enter key»
Expanded Keyboard to switch to an expanded version of the standard Windows Touch keyboard that supports the Windows, Alt, and function keys as well as adds an Escape, Delete, Tab, and Caps key»
Dock Keyboard to switch a floating Standard, Split, Inking, or Expanded Touch Keyboard to docked to fix it at the bottom of the screen beneath the Excel program window (note that the Mobile style keyboard can’t be docked)»
Float Keyboard to switch a docked Standard, Split, Inking, or Expanded Touch Keyboard to floating so that you can drag it around the Excel program window»
Language Preferences to open Region & Language screen in Windows Settings where you can switch to or add another language to use its keyboard in Excel»
Typing Settings to open the Type screen in the Windows Settings where you modify the spelling and typing options including the one that automatically displays the selected Touch Keyboard whenever your laptop is in Tablet mode or your tablet has no keyboard attached to it»
Keyboard Tips to open the Tips app where you can get Windows 10 as well as Office 2019 tipsWhen docked, the default standard Windows 10 Touch keyboard remains completely separate from the Excel program window so that you still have access to all the cells in the current worksheet when doing your data entry. The standard Windows Touch keyboard is limited mostly to letter keys above a spacebar with a few punctuation symbols (apostrophe, comma, period, and question mark). This keyboard also sports the following special keys:
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Backspace key (marked with the x in the shape pointing left) to delete characters to the immediate left when entering or editing a cell entry»
Enter key to complete an entry in the current cell and move the cursor down one row in the same column»
Shift keys (with an arrow pointing upward) to enter capital letters in a cell entry»
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Ctrl key to run macros to which you’ve assigned letter keys (see Chapter 12 for details) or to combine with the Left arrow or Right arrow key to jump the cursor to the cell in the last and first column of the current row, respectively»
Emoticon key (with that awful smiley face icon) to switch to a bunch of emoticons that you can enter into a cell entry (tap the Emoticon key a second time to return to standard QWERTY letter arrangement)»
Left arrow (with the < symbol) to move the cell cursor one cell to the immedi- ate left and complete any cell entry in progress»
Right arrow (with the > symbol) to move the cell cursor one cell to the immediate right and complete any cell entry in progressIf you’ve enabled Windows speech services on your device, you can dictate your Excel entry or edit by tapping the Microphone button (to the immediate right of the Keyboard Settings button).
When you finish entering your worksheet data with the Windows 10 Touch keyboard, you can close it and return to the normal full screen view of the Excel program window by tapping the Close button.