User's Manual

Chapter 3 Navigating and Entering Data

Typing capital letters

The keyboard enables you to capitalize letters in two ways:

■ Use the CAPS key . Press the CAPS key twice to initiate CAPS lock.

■ Press and hold the key. This feature works only when the Keyboard preference

Repeat Function is set to Capital. See “Keyboard Preferences” in Chapter 18 for

more information.

Accessing international and special characters

You can access international and special characters directly from the keyboard or

from onscreen keyboards. These character sets enable you to communicate

accurately through your memos or wireless messages.

Accessing from the keyboard

You can access international characters from the keyboard by pressing and holding

a key, and then pressing Up and Down on the navigator. The character on the

screen scrolls through a sequence of related international characters. You can scroll

though the sequence either forward or backward depending on whether you are

pressing Up or Down on the navigator.

Function key: Press to access the secondary character set. See “Using the

Function key” later in this chapter.

CAPS/Find key: Capitalizes letters or opens the Find dialog box. For

more information on capitalizing letters, see the next section “Typing

capital letters”. For information on the Find dialog box, see “Finding

information” in Chapter 4.

Space/Symbol key: Adds a space to the text or opens the onscreen

keyboards. For more information about the onscreen keyboards, see

“Accessing the onscreen keyboards” later in this chapter.

Command/Menu key: Opens the Command toolbar or Menu. The

Command bar has many functions, such as showing the signal strength

for the 802.11b radio. For information about the Command mode,

see “Using menu commands and the command toolbar” in Chapter 4.

For more information about Menus, see “Using menus” in Chapter 4.

Home/ShortCut key: Opens the Application Launcher or enables you to

enter a text ShortCut. For more information on ShortCuts, see “Using

ShortCuts” later in this chapter.

Return/Enter key: Adds a manual return to the next line or enters the

data.

Delete/Backspace key: Deletes the previous character.

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