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Caps Lock is there. Just as on a phone, you can lock down the

Shift key to type in ALL CAPITALS by double-tapping it. It lights
up to show that it’s locked down. (Tap it again to unlock it.)

Its letter keys are hiding punctuation and accents. To produce

an accented character (like é, ë, è, ê, and so on), keep your finger
pressed on that key for about a second.

The comma sprouts a semicolon (;) option, but the period and the

question mark—oh, baby. Their secret palettes contain a wealth of
other punctuation marks (dash, colon, parentheses, exclamation
point, number sign/hashtag, at symbol, slash, hyphen, and so on)

that save you from having to call up the special-symbols layout.

Tip

Most keys on the symbol keyboard sprout variations, too; for example, the $ key offers an array of
alternate currency symbols.

The double-space-bar trick is available. If you press the space
bar twice, you get a period, a space, and an automatically
capitalized next letter—exactly what you want at the end of a

sentence. (It’s the same trick that saves you fussing on the iPhone,
Windows Phone, Android phones, BlackBerry, and so on.)

Note

The on/off switch for this feature is in → → Devices → Typing.

There are cursor keys. See the and keys to the right of the
space bar? Those don’t mean “greater than” and “less than.”

They’re arrow keys. They move your cursor left and right through
the text.