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How to begin typing with a lower case letter

I just tried to install the Dropbox on our iPad2 and ran into security issues
when I tried to enter my email address and password. The iPad begins every
data entry with a Capital letter. This created an error and Dropbox sent a
message to my iMac mail account about someone trying to access my account.

The someone was me on the iPad that cannot start with a lowercase letter.

How do you start typing with a lowercase letter?

 24" iMac, 13" MB Pro and 32 GB iPad2 , Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Apr 15, 2011 5:07 PM

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Posted on Apr 15, 2011 5:26 PM

Are you using the on-screen keyboard? Can you press the shift key to toggle between upper and lower case? On my iPad1, Dropbox's logon screen doesn't force an uppercase initially. Many other apps will, especially typing apps like email or note-taking, but you should be able to switch by pressing shift. But I did not have to shift on Dropbox's login.
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Apr 15, 2011 5:26 PM in response to aRKay

Are you using the on-screen keyboard? Can you press the shift key to toggle between upper and lower case? On my iPad1, Dropbox's logon screen doesn't force an uppercase initially. Many other apps will, especially typing apps like email or note-taking, but you should be able to switch by pressing shift. But I did not have to shift on Dropbox's login.

Apr 15, 2011 5:33 PM in response to aRKay

Go to Settings>Keyboard>Auto Capitalization>Off. That turns auto caps off. However, if you are typing your name, the iPad may recognize it and want to capitalize it anyway. You just have to keep correcting the iPad in those situations by tapping the the X in suggested word that comes up on the screen. Eventually the iPad will learn to not capitalize if you ignore the suggested word enough times.

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How to begin typing with a lower case letter

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