Android tablet with bluetooth mouse - no on screen keyboard!

So, a few years ago my phone/isp provider offers me a better plan which I agree to. A "sweetner" is a free tablet -Oh OK. This tablet is not all that crash hot but since it was free, well, I'm not one to say no to a freebe. I soon discover that the touch screen is quite poor and rather frustrating, so since it is bluetooth compatible I investigate bluetooth mouses, and after buying a logitec mouse things are much easier with a proper cursor and proper buttons to click. BUT, the tablet now thinks that I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, not just a mouse, so if I'm doing something that requires text input, the on screen keyboard DOES NOT APPEAR. Arrrrghh! Am I stuck with this or is there something I can change in settings to allow the on screen keyboard to be used at the same time as the bluetooth mouse? The android version is 4.0.4_3.42 which I think is an old version so any answer will need to take this into account. Thanks in advance to all you Android experts out there. Ray.

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