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28 Section 1B: Your Phone: The Basics
Entering Text
You can enter text, numbers, and symbols into your phone
using Alpha, Word, Numeric, or Symbol text input modes.
When you access a screen that requires you to enter text, you
start in the mode last used.
To choose a text input mode:
1.
At a screen that requires you to enter text, press
M
.
2.
Select the text input mode you want to use. A
checkmark appears next to the current mode.
Using Word Mode
In Word mode, T9 Text Input analyzes the letters on the
keypad buttons you press and arranges them to create words.
As you type, Word mode matches your keystrokes to words in
its database and displays the most commonly used matching
word. You can add your own words to this database.
l Alpha — Press a key several times for each
character.
j
Word — Press a key once for each letter while
words likely to be the one you want are chosen
from a database.
i
Symbols — Enter punctuation and other symbols.
k
Numeric — Enter numbers.