Using the Keyboard

8. Other Useful Nuggets

There are some other useful tips about your keyboard that are worth knowing.  Here are a few:

  • If you double tap the space at the end of a sentence, it will automatically place a period followed by a space, and turn on the auto-shift so your next letter is capitalized.
  • The shift key has four functions:
    • Grey key with black outline of arrow "⇧": normal mode, lower case letter
    • Grey key with blue outline of arrow "⇧": auto-shift mode, first letter is uppercase then it reverts to lowercase (This happens when you use punctuation or hit return to a new line).
    • Grey key with blue filled arrow "⇧": manual shift mode, you have to touch the shift to get this; it  makes the next letter uppercase then reverts back to lowercase 
    • Blue key with gray filled arrow "⇧": caps lock mode, you double-touch to get this; it turns on the caps lock mode for all caps