Palm Pre User Manual page 12

• Turn on Caps Lock: Press Shift
appears: .
• Turn off Caps Lock: Press Shift
Enter alternate keyboard characters
Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above the letters on the keys. To
enter these characters, do one of the following:
• Press Option and press the key for the character. The alternate
character symbol appears:
key while pressing the second key.
• Enter a series of alternate characters: Press
alternate character feature. The alternate character lock symbol appears:
.
• Turn off the alternate character feature: Press
Enter passwords
You can see each character of a password only as you enter it, so be careful.
Be sure Caps Lock and alternate character lock are off unless you need them.
For information on how to enter characters, see
Enter alternate keyboard characters.
Enter characters from the symbols table
You can enter symbols and accented characters that don't appear on the
keys by using the symbols table.
1 Press Sym to display the symbols table.
2 Narrow the list by pressing the key that corresponds to the character
you want. For example, to enter an é, press e. See the table below for a
list of corresponding characters.
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twice. The Caps Lock symbol
.
. You don't need to hold down the orange
Option twice to lock the
Option .
Enter uppercase letters
TIP The symbols and accented characters are grouped according to their
similarity to the corresponding key. In some cases, the symbol is related to the
alternate character on the key, not the letter. For example, to type a € or other
currency symbol, press
key is $.
If you press the wrong key, press
TIP
symbols and accented characters. You can then press another key.
3 Scroll to find the character you want.
4 Tap the character to insert it.
Enter information in a field
You can enter information in a field by typing or by pasting previously
copied information.
Applications with text fields support the auto-correct feature. If the app
recognizes a common misspelling, it auto-corrects the word. To cancel the
auto-correction, press
To accept the information you entered, do one of the following:
and
• Tap outside the field.
• Press Enter
the information you just entered and jumps the cursor to the next field.
• When you are done entering information on the screen containing the
field, make the back gesture to accept the information and back out of the
screen.
Select items in a list
Lists enable you to select from a range of options. Lists are different from
menus (see Use the
Lists are hidden until you tap the currently displayed option for that list.
Sym + h. Why? Because the alternate character on the H
Backspace to return to the full list of
Backspace .
. If a screen contains multiple fields, pressing Enter accepts
menus), which give you access to additional features.