Colon and Semi Colon - OnScreen Keyboard

Is there a way to type a colon or semi colon using the iPad Onscreen Keyboard? If not this seems like a pretty serious oversight

jinksjohnson wrote:
The point IS, there is NO colon or semi-colon on the ipad keyboard.
Can anyone explain why this is?
I suggest you ask Apple to add this using the feedback channel:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
When you do so, make sure you specify exactly what kind of text fields in what apps you are referring to, because in the places where people do most of their typing (email subject and text, web browsers, and word processors)  there is no problem finding those characters using the 123 key.

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