Typing Words And Characters: The Alphabetic Menu - HP 17bll+ User Manual

Typing Words and Characters: the ALPHAbetic Menu

The ALPHAbetic menu is automatically displayed when you need it to
type letters and characters. The ALPHA menu also includes characters
not found on the keyboard:
Uppercase letters.
Space.
Punctuation and special characters.
Non-English letters.
ABCDE FGHI
H
F G I
: < > #
&
To type a letter you need to press two keys; for example,  is produced
by the keystrokes
Each letter menu has an
non-English characters. The letter menus with just four letters (for
example, FGHI) include a space character (
To familiarize yourself with the ALPHA menu, type in the equation for the
cost of carpeting. The necessary keystrokes are shown below. (Note the
access to the special character, "/".) Use
corrections. If you need to do further editing, refer to the next section,
"Editing ALPHAbetic Text." When you're satisfied that the equation is
correct, press
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JKLM
NOPQ
space OTHER
R
$ , . /
! @
*
  .

to enter the equation into memory.
RSTUV
S T U V
key for accessing punctuation and
).
, if necessary, to make
<
Alpha
menu
WXYZ
Letters,
space
OTHER
OTHER
characters