Entering lowercase and uppercase letters
•To enter lowercase letters, press the desired keys.
•To enter an uppercase letter, press Shift/Find 
or Right Shift 
, and then enter a letter. You don’t need to press and hold Shift while entering a letter.
•To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift/Find 
or Right Shift 
twice. To turn it off,
press Shift/Find 
or Right 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 
, and then press the key with the desired character shown above the letter. You don’t need to press and hold 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.Enter 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 entering the next character.
In many applications, you can view a list of all the alternate characters. Open the Edit menu and select Keyboard Help.
Some application views automatically default to Option Lock, such as the Dial Pad View in the Phone application or the Calculator. In this case, you do not have to press and hold 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 
.
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