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No Colon symbol on iPad virtual Keyboard?

In order that I can receive the same emails on my iMac as well as my iPhone and iPad, I need to add a colon to my User name.
For example recent:abc@mac.com
I have colons on the keyboards of the first two but I cannot find one on the iPad. I have tried the three keyboards 123, ABC and #+= but cannot find it. Am I doing something wrong?

iPad, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 13, 2010 6:33 AM

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Mar 6, 2012 1:52 PM in response to nimrod990

Easiest way I got it was to go to Settings>General>International>Keyboards Then Add New keyboard and choose "Spanish-QUERTY" With that you go to a page you want to write on, call up the keyboard, and tap & hold the:


—comma key: above it will appear three choices, two of which are the semi-colon and the single quote mark '.

—period key: above it will appear three choices, one of which is the colon, and the double quote " mark.


The other Spanish marks like ¿ adn ñ won't matter and shouldn't bother you. I find this MUCH better than going to the other keyboards. Have fun!

Mar 7, 2012 10:26 AM in response to conecto46

conecto46 wrote:


Hummmm. I believe it does, at least on my iPad 2. It will NOT work in the To: frame but in the subject and body it does.


You still don't seem to understand. Nobody has any problem typing a colon in the subject and body with the normal US keyboard. As I said before, it is the address field (that means the To: frame) where you cannot type a colon with the US or with your Spanish keyboard, and that is what this discussion is about.

May 30, 2013 4:13 AM in response to nimrod990

IF your semi colon question is centered around email and wanting to send to a group email, there is a cool trick I learned that allowed me to do so and it works like a champ.


1. From a source another than your ipad (I used my laptop) create an email with ll the email addresses you want on the group email to include your email in the cc field.

2. Send a test email telling the group this is a test..(hint:it will save you many curious use tins)

3. Open the email on your secondary source, other than iPad, and copy the addresses you want in the group mail.

4. Paste the full group in the body of a new email to include semicolon and Snd that email to yourself.

5. Open email with group addresses in the body of the email on your iPad.

6. Copy he addresses as one item.

7. Go to our contact link on your iPad and create a name for your list as the contact name.

8. In the newly created contact you may put any info thee you want but in the email section paste the copy fom the body of the email with ALL addresses as the email address in your new contact.

9. Close the edit portion of your contact and open email. In the email address place curor and start typing your new contact and whn it operas like any other contact click on it and it will place the name in the email address location. Sn the email and along to yourself and while a box appears that says you have an incorrect email address go ahead and click no and proceed..Check your work...pretty cool huh? Enjoy.

No Colon symbol on iPad virtual Keyboard?

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