Nokia 3585, Start Here Manual

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Text entry
KEYS AND TOOLS FOR PREDICTIVE TEXT
Turn on predictive text input
You can turn on predictive text input from the Options menu while writing a text message.
Once enabled, predictive text is available to all features that support it.
in the screen’s upper left corner indicates predictive text is active.
ENABLE PREDICTIVE TEXT (QUICK METHOD)
While creating a new text message or calendar note, press and hold the Options key for two
seconds. The message T9 prediction on is displayed and the English language dictionary is
enabled (or the most recently selected dictionary).
ENABLE PREDICTIVE TEXT (AND SELECT DICTIONARY)
While creating a new text message:
1 Press Options , scroll to Predictive text , and press Select .
2 Scroll to the dictionary you want (for example, English ), then press Select .
Key Description
- Use for text entry. Press each key only once per letter.
Press and hold the key to enter the number.
If the underlined word is not the word you intended, press this key
repeatedly until the word you want appears.
Press and hold this key to display a list of punctuation and special
characters.
Spell If the word entered isn’t recognized, Spell appears above the left
selection key. Press Spell , enter the desired word, then press Save .
Clear Press once to delete the character to the left of the cursor. Press and
hold to delete characters faster.
Press once to accept the word and add a space. Press and hold to
enter a zero.
Press and hold to enter mode. Enter the desired number, then
press and hold again to return to predictive text.
Press once to add a period. Press the star key repeatedly to view
other punctuation.
Press once to add a punctuation mark that predictive text converts
to an apostrophe.
Press and hold to enter the numeral 1.
Press to switch between sentence case, lowercase, or uppercase
modes or to switch to the above modes without predictive text.