Controlling the Current Focus Area

Some Pinyin input can represent more than one Simplified Chinese character phrase, although only one such phrase is displayed in the current focus area. You can look at the other choices as follows:

• Show choices one at a time in the current focus area by pressing Control-N to display the next choice forward through the choices and Control-P to display the preceding choice back through the choices.

• Alternatively have the other phrases displayed in a lookup choice area by pressing Control-W. If more than one page of choices is available then pressing Control-N displays the next page and Control-P to displays the previous page. Press the uppercase letter of a displayed choice to put it into the current focus area.

  To lengthen the current focus area by one character press Control-I.

  To shorten the current focus area by one character press Control-U.

  To move the current focus area forward to the phrase to the right press Control-F.

  Pressing Control-B moves the current focus area to the phrase to the left.

Move the current focus area forward to the phrase to the right by pressing Control-F.

The window would then appear like this: