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Enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols
Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above the
letters on the keys. To enter these characters, do one of
the following:
•
Press
Option
and then press the key with the character—no need to
hold Option
while pressing the second key.
•
To turn Option Lock on, press
Option
twice. The following symbol
appears: . To turn Option Lock off, press
Option
once.
Enter accented characters
1. Enter the character that corresponds to the character you want. For
example, press
E
if you want É.
2. Press
Alt
.
3. In the pop-up list, highlight the character you want, and then press
Center
to select the highlighted character.
Enter an underscore and other symbols
To enter characters such as an underscore (_), a bullet (•), a backslash (\), a
percent symbol (%), and an equal sign (=), press
Alt
by itself after a space or
at the beginning or end of a line.
For example, to enter an underscore, press
Alt
after a space or at the
beginning or end of a line, and then select the underscore character on the
pop-up list of alternate characters. Remember to delete the space before the
underscore.
Did You Know?
Some application
views have Option
Lock turned on
automatically, such
as the Dial Pad in
the Phone
application. In this
case, you do not
need to press
Option
to enter
numbers.
Tip
Alternate characters
are grouped by their
similarity to the
base key. For
example, the
alternate characters
for the
E
key are
É
,
È
,
Ë
, and
Ê
. You can
find a complete
table of the
alternate keys in the
User Guide
on the
Getting Started CD.
Letter
Symbol