Palm 755P manual Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols, Are entered using the Alt key

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•To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift/Find

twice. To turn it off, press Shift/ Find once. When Caps Lock is on, the symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.

Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols

Number, punctuation, and symbol characters appear above the letters on the keys.To enter these characters, do one of the following:

Symbol

Letter

•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. When Option is active, the symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.

•To turn Option Lock on, press Option

twice. To turn it off, press Option once. When Option Lock is on, the symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.

DID YOU KNOW? 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 need to press Option to enter numbers.

Entering other symbols and accented characters

Symbols and accented characters that do not appear on the keyboard are sometimes called alternate characters because they

are entered using the Alt key.

1Enter the character that corresponds to the symbol or accented character you want. See the table on the next page.

2Press Alt .

3Press Up , Down , Right , or Left to highlight the desired character.

4Press Center to insert the character.

DID YOU KNOW? Alternate characters are grouped by their similarity to the base key. For example, the alternate characters for the e key are é, è, ë, ê, and .

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