Your device keyboard contains five rows of keys, including an embedded 12-key dial pad, a key for the "at" symbol (@), a SYM key, and two ALT keys. Read more in the topics below.

Embedded Dial Pad

Open the display to use the 12-key phone dial pad overlaid in the keyboard. Read more in Phone Controls. @ Key When you type an email address, the "at" symbol (@) separates the username from the domain; for example, username@domain.com. Use the @ key (located in the bottom row of keys) to insert the @ symbol in an email address easily.

SYM Key

Press the SYM key to open the Special Character selector. To insert a special character directly using its Unicode value, first press the SYM key, then type the Unicode value. For example, to insert a bullet (·), you would press SYM, then type 00B7 [SYM, 00B7]. If you don't know the Unicode value of a character, press SYM to open the Special Character selector, scroll through the selector until you find the character, then do one of the following to display the value:

• Highlight the character for two seconds.
• Highlight the character then press Menu I.
• Highlight the character, then press and hold the wheel.

ALT Key

You'll find two ALT keys on your device; one on the lower-right and one on the lower-left of the keyboard. To type the characters shown in blue on some of the keys, first press the ALT key, then the key showing the special character. For example, if you need to type a semicolon (;), you would first press the ALT key, then the J key [ALT, J].

• Lock the ALT key to type a series of special characters by pressing the key twice.
• Unlock the ALT key by pressing it once again.

Note: You can also lock the Shift key by pressing it twice. Unlock by pressing once again. Read about how text cursors change when using the ALT or Shift keys in The Text Cursor