Typing Words and Characters: the ALPHAbetic Menu
The ALPHAbetic menu is automatically displayed when you need it to type letters and characters. The ALPHA menu also includes characters not found on the keyboard:
Uppercase letters.
Space.
Punctuation and special characters.
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| Alpha |
ABCDE |
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| FGHI | JKLM |
| NOPQ |
| RSTUV |
| WXYZ | menu | ||||||||||||||
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| F | G | H | I space OTHER R S | T U | V OTHER | space | ||||||||||||||||||
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| OTHER |
: < | > | # | $ |
| , . | / |
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To type a letter you need to press two keys; for example, is produced by the keystrokes .
Each letter menu has an key for accessing punctuation and
example, FGHI) include a space character ( |
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To familiarize yourself with the ALPHA menu, type in the equation for the cost of carpeting. The necessary keystrokes are shown below. (Note the access to the special character, “/”.) Use <, if necessary, to make corrections. If you need to do further editing, refer to the next section, “Editing ALPHAbetic Text.” When you’re satisfied that the equation is correct, press Ito enter the equation into memory.
30 1: Getting Started
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