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SHIFT KEY –
To type a capital letter, press Shift and then press the Letter you would like to be capitalised. You
can hold down Shift if you want to type several capital letters.
If you need to use Caps Lock, simply press Shift twice. Everything you type will be in capital letters
until you press Shift twice again. You will notice an icon
on the top right of your screen to
indicate if Caps Lock is on or off.
Pressing Shift then a letter key with Caps Lock already on, will type a lower case letter.
You can also use Shift to type the symbols printed in red on the top of some keys.
MENU KEY –
Pressing the Menu key will take you to the User Menu.
Pressing Shift-Menu will take you to the Advanced User Menu.
See Menus for more information.
NUMBERS AND THE NUMBER LOCK KEY –
To use numbers as you type, you need to make sure that Number Lock is on. Press the Number Lock
key and you will see the symbol
in the top right corner of your screen change.
As well as using numbers as you type, you can use the Number keys to select Word Predictions, to
speed up your typing. You can only use predictions when Number Lock is switched off.
DELETE KEY –
When typing, the Delete key will remove the character to the left of the cursor. If the word entered
was a Prediction, then pressing Delete will remove the whole word.
You can also use this key to delete words from your User Dictionary. See Advanced Typing for more
details.
SOUND KEY –
Press the Sound key to turn the sound on/off. The speaker icon
in the top right of the screen will
change to show if the sound is on/off. This is useful when you want to temporarily turn off all the
sounds and voices on your Lightwriter. Press Sound again to turn sounds back on.
Press and hold Sound combined with Left and Right Arrow keys to change the Volume up and
down.
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