Entering lowercase and uppercase letters
•To type lowercase letters, press the desired keys.
•To type an uppercase letter, press Shift 
, then type a letter. You don’t need to hold down Shift while typing a letter.
•To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift 
twice. To turn it off, press Shift
again. When Caps Lock is on, this symbol appears in the lower right: 
Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols that appear above the letters on the keys
•Press Option 
, then press the key with the desired character shown above the letter. You don’t need to hold down Option while pressing the second key.
•To turn Option Lock on, press Option 
twice. To turn it off, press
Option 
again. When Option Lock is on, this symbol appears in the lower right:
Entering other symbols and accented characters
1.Type the character that corresponds to the symbol or accented character you want. See the table on the next page.
2.Press Alt 
.
3.Press Up 
or Down 
to highlight the desired character.
4.Press Center to insert the character, or just continue typing the next character.
In many applications you can view a list of all the alternate characters. From the Edit menu, choose Keyboard Help (/G).
Some application views automatically default to Option Lock, such as the Dial Pad of the Phone application, or the Calculator. In this case, you do not have to hold down Option to enter numbers.
The alternate characters are grouped according to their similarity to the corresponding key. For example, the alternate characters available for the e key are é, è, ë, ê and 
.
