Palm Treo 500 User Manual page 36

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Use the keyboard to enter text and other
symbols in many applications on your
smartphone, as well as to dial phone
numbers (see Using your Home screen).
Depending on your region, your
NOTE
keyboard layout may be different from the
one shown in the preceding figure.
Understanding the keyboard backlight
Your smartphone includes a keyboard
backlight for low light conditions. The
keyboard backlight activates automatically
when the screen turns on. The backlight
turns off automatically when the screen
turns off or when you are on a call or are
playing music in the background for longer
than the time specified in Backlight
Settings. You can set different time
intervals depending on whether the
smartphone is operating on battery power
or is connected to an external power
source. The backlight also turns off when
an application's power-saving features turn
it off.
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interval. Press Home, press Start (left
softkey), press More (left softkey), and then
select Settings. Select More and then select
Power Management. Use the two Backlight
time out on... lists to specify how long the
backlight stays on.
Using text-entry fields
In applications such as Contacts, Calendar,
and Tasks, text-entry fields are designated
by a rectangle around the field. On most
screens, the rectangle does not appear
until you navigate to the field using the
5-way. To enter text in a field, highlight the
field and use the keyboard to enter text.
Some text-entry fields—for example, the
Street field in Contacts or the Notes field in
Contacts, Calendar, or Tasks—display a
right-pointing arrow. In these fields, press
Center
screen that allows you to enter more than
one line of text.
The address and subject lines in an email,
text, or multimedia message you
compose, as well as the message body,
are also text-entry fields.
You can change the backlight shut-off
or Right to open a text-entry