Palm 700wx User Guide - Page 30

2 MOVING AROUND ON YOUR SMARTPHONE CHAPTER TIP When using the keyboard, most people find it easiest to hold the smartphone with two hands and to use the tips of both thumbs to press the keys. Understanding the keyboard backlight Your smartphone includes a keyboard backlight for low light conditions. The keyboard backlight is activated automatically when you turn on the screen. The backlight turns off automatically when the screen turns off or when you are on a call or you 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. TIP You can change the backlight shut-off interval. Press Start and select Settings. Select the System tab, and then select Backlight. Set the time interval on the Battery Power tab and on the External Power tab. Entering lowercase and uppercase letters By default, the first letter of each sentence or field is capitalized and the remaining text you enter is lowercase. To enter other uppercase letters, do one of the following: • Press Shift (this symbol appears at the bottom of the screen), and then enter a letter. You don't need to press and hold Shift while entering a letter. • Press Shift twice to turn on Caps Lock, and then enter a series of letters. When Caps Lock is on, this symbol appears at the bottom of the screen: . To turn off Caps Lock, press Shift again. TIP You can turn off the first-letter capitalization setting. For details see Setting input options. Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above the letters on the keys. To enter these characters, do one of the following: 22 U S I N G T H E K E Y B O A R D