Sharp SL-5500 manual Pickboard Top Row, Pickboard Bottom Row, Pickboard Menu

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Basic Operations 41

Pickboard Top Row

This row has the 123 letter group for entering digits, the symbols letter group and some command words.

Tap Space to enter a space, tap Back to backspace delete, and tap Enter to move to a new line.

CAPS LOCK is controlled by tapping Shift.

The KEY group leads to a set of keyboard navigation keys, e.g. PgUp, PgDn, etc. To return to the normal Pickboard, tap the pop-up menu button and then tap “Reset”.

To display numeric characters, tap a numeral in the “123” group.

To display symbols, tap a letter in the “@*!?” group.

Pop-up menu button

To display special characters or commands, tap a letter “KEY”.

Tap ESC to return to the normal Pickboard.

Pickboard Bottom Row

Tapping letter groups enters words.

The Pickboard presents a list of letters and words at the top of the input area. If the word you intend to type appears, tap it to insert it.

For example, to enter the word “intellect”, tap the GHI group (for “i”), then the MNO group (for “n”), then the STU group (for “t”), then the DEF group (for “e”), then the JKL group (for “l”). At this point the word “intellect” appears; tap the word to enter it.

Pickboard Menu

At the right of the pickboard is a pop-up menu button which offers an Add word option and a Reset option. Use this menu if no candidates you want is found.

To add a word, tap each letter of the word in the letter groups in turn, then tap the pop-up menu button and tap “Add...”.

To cancel selecting the letter group(s), tap the pop-up menu button and then tap “Reset”.