[subego]

Tapping and holding the "hide keyboard" key gives you the option for a split keyboard.

[subego]

Originally Posted by chabig 

At least with iOS 5.0.1 on my iPad 2, this only works on the number or symbol keyboard. On the alphabet keyboard, holding down the period key is a shortcut for quotation mark.

Fixed. Thanks!

[chabig]

Originally Posted by subego 

Tapping and holding the "hide keyboard" key gives you the option for a split keyboard.

Even easier, just drag the keyboard off the bottom of the screen using that "thumb".

[HealthBuffMe]

Great tips and information in a nutshell! You'd really need these besides the iPad manual. I think some in here aren't included in the manual but learnt through navigation, stuffs like that. Very useful to those current iPad owners/users and soon to be iPad users. Kudos to all!