User’s Manual
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The Keyboard
Figure 5-1 The numeric keypad overlay
Temporarily using normal keyboard (overlay on)
While using the overlay, you can temporarily access the normal keyboard
functions without having to turn the overlay off:
1. Hold down
FN
key and press any other key - this key will operate as if
the overlay were off.
2. Type upper-case characters by holding down
FN
+
SHIFT
and pressing
a character key.
3. Release
FN
key to continue using the selected overlay function.
Temporarily using overlay (overlay off)
While using the normal keyboard function, you can temporarily use the
keypad overlay without having to turn it on:
1. Hold down
FN
key.
2. Check the keyboard indicators as pressing the
FN
key will turn on the
most recently used overlay function - if the Numeric Mode indicator
lights you can use the overlay for numeric entry, while if the Arrow Mode
indicator lights, you can use the overlay for cursor and page control
function.
3. Release
FN
key to return to normal keyboard operation.
Temporarily changing modes
If the computer is in
Numeric Mode
, you can switch temporarily to
Arrow
Mode
by pressing a
SHIFT
key, while if it is in
Arrow Mode
, you can switch
temporarily to
Numeric Mode
by also pressing a
SHIFT
key.
