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C ONTROL PANEL
Change Keyboard Settings
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Change Keyboard Settings
To choose the keyboard settings in the Control Panel, move the cursor next to
Change keyboard settings and press enter. Then, move the cursor next
to the option you want to change and press enter. You can change the
following:
Change Keyboard Layout
When you choose this setting, NEO gives you a choice of four different
keyboard layouts to provide for special needs or preferences:
• QWERTY, the standard default layout of most keyboards and typewriters
• Dvorak, a scientifically-designed keyboard layout that requires much less
finger reaching and stretching for the most commonly used keys, and
results in faster and easier typing
• Right hand only, a layout that lets people with special needs type faster
• Left hand only, a layout that lets people with special needs type faster
When you switch keyboard layouts, all dialog boxes and keyboard commands
conform to the new layout. The command keys (ctrl
, option, , for
example) remain in the same location, but letter keys are derived from the
new layout. For instance, to access the Speed menu, you still press option-
-S, but the S key is in a different location.
Important: When you send text to your computer from your NEO using a
USB cable and send, the computer must use a QWERTY layout.
To change the keyboard layout, follow these steps:
1. Do one of the following:
• From the Control Panel, select Change Keyboard Settings, then
select Change Keyboard layout.
• From within a SmartApplet, press option--L.
Option Does This
Keyboard layouts Sets alternate keyboard layouts (see below)
Slow Keys Sets a time delay for holding down a key before the
character appears onscreen
Sticky Keys Sets whether you must hold keys down for keyboard
commands or whether you can press them sequentially
You can also change
these settings in
AlphaSmart
Manager. When you click the
Settings tab and click
System on the left, the
available settings that you can
change on the right will
include Sticky Keys, Keyboard
Layout and Slow Keys. It also
includes Auto Repeat.