Palm Centro Quick Start Manual page 11

Enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols
Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above the
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letters on the keys. To enter these characters, do one of
Some application
the following:
views have Option
Lock turned on •
automatically, such
as the Dial Pad in
•
the Phone
application. In this
case, you do not
Enter accented characters
need to press
1. Enter the character that corresponds to the character you want. For
Option to enter
numbers. example, press E if you want É.
Tip 2. Press Alt
Alternate characters
3. In the pop-up list, highlight the character you want, and then press
are grouped by their
Center
similarity to the
base key. For
Enter an underscore and other symbols
example, the
To enter characters such as an underscore (_), a bullet (•), a backslash (\), a
alternate characters
percent symbol (%), and an equal sign (=), press Alt
for the E key are É,
at the beginning or end of a line.
È, Ë, and Ê. You can
find a complete
For example, to enter an underscore, press Alt
table of the
beginning or end of a line, and then select the underscore character on the
alternate keys in the
pop-up list of alternate characters. Remember to delete the space before the
User Guide on the
underscore.
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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
appears: . To turn Option Lock off, press Option
.
to select the highlighted character.
Symbol
Letter
twice. The following symbol
once.
by itself after a space or
after a space or at the