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Adjusting the way the keyboard works

You can adjust the rate at which a character repeats when its key is held down as well as the delay before the character begins repeating. You can also change the keyboard layout if you have additional keyboard layouts installed.

1.Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu and open the Keyboard control panel.

Options for the speed at which a character repeats

Options for delay before a key repeats

Options for keyboard layout (if more than one is installed)

2.To adjust the rate at which a key repeats when it is held down, click the button for the rate you want.

3.To adjust the delay before keys repeat, click the button for the delay you want.

If the keys repeat when you don’t want them to, set a longer delay before a character begins repeating. (If you click the Off button, the keys don’t repeat at all.)

4.To change the keyboard layout, click the name of the keyboard layout you want to use.

You may have a choice of more than one keyboard layout. (Additional keyboard layouts are available from various sources. You install them by dragging them to the System Folder icon.)

5.Close the Keyboard control panel.

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