Microsoft created a compact on-screen keyboard for the Windows Phone 7. The keyboard is winning praise among users for being fast and easy to use, even if you have big fingers. But there is one task that seems to stump a lot of new users ; how to find certain symbol keys on the keyboard.
I know from my own experience, it happened to me when I first started using the phone. I needed to enter a passcode for a locked wireless network while in Europe a few weeks ago. I couldn’t find the underscore key. Until I remembered that the phone has two pages of symbols.
Finding the symbol keyboard is easy. Most people guess that you press the ‘&123′ key.
Figure 1: The main alpha keyboard.
That takes you to the number/symbol page as show in Figure 2.
Figure 2: The number/symbol keyboard.
This is where people start getting panicky. Where are the square braces? What about the underscore or equal sign?
They are on the second page of the number/symbol keyboard. Just click the -> arrow in the lower left to see the second page (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Alternate number/symbol keyboard.
Click the <- arrow to return to the first symbol page.
See my other keyboard tips
Accented characters on the Keyboard
Punctuation shortcuts on the Keyboard
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