Entry of text and selections into computing devices

Abstract

Aids for improving the use of computing devices incorporating touch sensitive screens and other computing devices, including a method for correcting words incorrectly entered into a computing device which has the steps of: selecting as the word to be corrected one of the one or more words displayed on a computing device display screen during use of text entry software; entering text correction mode and leaving the text entry program; displaying the characters comprising the word to be corrected in such a way that each character can be selected individually by the user; selecting a character to be corrected or deleted, or a character adjacent where a missing character(s) will be inserted; correcting the character selected in the previous step (which can include deleting the character selected) or inserting a character(s); optionally repeating the last two steps to correct additional characters until the word selected to be corrected is changed to a corrected word to which no more changes or corrections need to be made; exiting correction mode and re-entering the text entry program; and replacing the word selected to be corrected with the corrected word.

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