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counting the up to 6 separate icons that are docked at the bottom of each of these Home screens.
(You can have fewer than the default 4 docked icons at the bottom, but we can't think of a decent
reason why you'd want to ditch any of them. In any case, more on these in a moment.)
Here's what you need to know about navigating among the screens:
To navigate between screens, flick your finger from right to left or left to right across the
middle of the screen, or tap directly on the dots. The number of dots you see represents the
current number of screens on your iPad. The dot that's all white denotes the screen you're
viewing.
You can also drag your finger in either horizontal direction to see a different screen. Unlike
flicking — you may prefer the term
swiping
— dragging your finger means keeping it pressed
against the screen until you reach your desired page.
Swipe—don'ttap—oryou'llprobablyopenoneoftheapplicationiconsinsteadofswitching
screens.
Press the Home button to jump back to the Home screen. Doing so the first time takes you
back to the last Home screen you were on. Tapping Home a second time takes you to the first
Home screen (provided you don't tap twice in succession too quickly, which instead takes you
to the multitasking screen).
The Dock — that is, the Safari, Mail, Videos, and Music icons in the bottom row — stays put
as you switch screens
.
In other words, only the first 20 icons on the screen change when you
move from one screen to another.
You can add one or two more icons to the Dock if you so choose. Or, move one of the four
default icons into the main area of the Home screen to make space available for additional
app icons you may use more often, as described later in this chapter.
Select, cut, copy, and paste
Being able to select and then copy and paste from one place on a computer to another has seemingly
been a divine right since Moses, and that's the case on the Apple tablet as well. You can copy and
paste (and cut) with pizzazz.
On the iPad, you might copy text or a URL from the web and paste it into an e-mail or a note. Or,
you might copy a bunch of pictures or video into an e-mail.
Say that you're jotting down ideas in the Notes application that you'll eventually copy into an e-mail.
Here's how to exploit the copy-and-paste feature, using this scenario as an example:
1.
Double-tap a word to select it.
