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Entering other symbols and accented characters – Palm 700P User Manual

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To turn Option Lock on, press Option

twice. To turn it off, press Option

once. When Option Lock is on, the
symbol

appears in the lower-right

corner of the screen.

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

key.

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 ,

Right ,

or

Left

to highlight the desired

character.

4 Press Center

to insert the

character.

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Some application views

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.

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Alternate characters are

grouped by their similarity to the base key. For
example, the alternate characters for the e key
are й, и, л, к, and .