Using the keyboard :: 25Entering lowercase and uppercase letters• To enter lowercase letters, press the desired keys.• To enter an uppercase letter, press Shift/Find or Right Shift , and thenenter a letter. You don’t need to press and hold Shift while entering a letter.• To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift/Find or Right Shift twice. To turn it off,press Shift/Find or Right Shift again. When Caps Lock is on, this symbolappears in the lower right: .Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols that appear above theletters on the keys• Press Option , and then press the key with the desired character shown abovethe letter. You don’t need to press and hold Option while pressing the second key.• To turn Option Lock on, press Option twice. To turn it off, press Optionagain. When Option Lock is on, this symbol appears in the lower right: .Entering other symbols and accented characters1. Enter the character that corresponds to the symbol or accented character youwant. See the table on the next page.2. Press Alt .3. Press Up or Down to highlight the desired character.4. Press Center to insert the character, or just continue entering the next character.In many applications, youcan view a list of all thealternate characters. Openthe Edit menu and selectKeyboard Help.Some application viewsautomatically default toOption Lock, such as theDial Pad View in the Phoneapplication or theCalculator. In this case, youdo not have to press andhold Option to enternumbers.The alternate charactersare grouped according totheir similarity to thecorresponding key. Forexample, the alternatecharacters available for thee key are é, è, ë, ê and .
