Palm Treo 700P Quick Reference Manual page 12

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Entering numbers, punctuation, and
symbols
Numbers, punctuation, and symbols
appear above the letters on the keys.
To enter these characters, do one of
the following:
Symbol
Letter
Press Option
•
key with the desired character shown
above the letter. You don't need to press
and hold Option while pressing the
second key. When Option is active, the
symbol
corner of the screen.
To turn Option Lock on, press Option
•
twice. To turn it off, press Option
once. When Option Lock is on, the
symbol
corner of the screen.
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, and then press the
appears in the lower-right
appears in the lower-right
Some application views
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automatically default to Option Lock, such as
the Dial Pad View in the Phone application or
the Calculator. In this case, you do not need
to press Option to enter numbers.
Entering other symbols and accented
characters
Symbols and accented characters that do
not appear on the keyboard are sometimes
called alternate characters because they
are entered using the Alt
1 Enter the character that corresponds to
the symbol or accented character you
want. See the table on the next page.
2 Press Alt .
3 Press Up , Down
Left to highlight the desired
character.
4 Press Center
character.
Alternate characters are
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grouped by their similarity to the base key. For
example, when you press Alt + E you can
access the following alternate characters:
e é, è, ë, ê, and .
key.
, Right , or
to insert the