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It’s described in the free “Internet Explorer” appendix that you can

download from this book’s “Missing CD” page at missingmanuals.com.

Keyboard

The primary features are duplicated in the Settings app; see “Closed
Captions”.

You’re probably too young to remember the antique known as a typewriter.
On some electric versions of that machine, you could hold down the letter
X key to type a series of XXXXXXX’s—ideal for crossing out something

in a contract, for example.

On a PC, every key behaves this way. Hold down any key long enough, and
it starts spitting out repetitions, making it easy to type, “No

WAAAAAAAAY!” (The same rule applies when you hold down the arrow
keys to scroll through a text document, hold down the = key to build a
separator line between paragraphs, hold down Backspace to eliminate a

word, and so on.) The Speed tab of this dialog box governs the settings:

Repeat delay. This slider determines how long you must hold
down the key before it starts repeating (to prevent triggering
repetitions accidentally).

Repeat rate. The second slider governs how fast each key spits out
letters once the spitting has begun. After making these adjustments,
click the “Click here and hold down a key” test box to try out the

new settings.

Cursor blink rate. The “Cursor blink rate” slider actually has

nothing to do with the cursor, the little arrow you move around
with the mouse. Instead, it governs the blinking rate of the
insertion point, the blinking marker that indicates where typing

will begin when you’re word processing, for example. A blink rate
that’s too slow makes it more difficult to find your insertion point
in a window filled with data. A blink rate that’s too rapid can be

distracting.