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Section 2A: Phone Basics
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Phon
e Basics
Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters, punctuation,
and numbers whenever you are prompted to enter text (for example, when
adding a Contacts entry or when using email and SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1.
When you display a screen where you can enter text, press
Options
(
) to change the character input mode.
2.
Select one of the following options:
䡲
T9(English)
to enter text using a predictive text entering
system that reduces the number of keys that need to be
pressed while entering a word
(see page 46).
䡲
Alpha
to cycle through the alpha characters associated with
the letters on the keypad
(see page 47).
䡲
Symbol
to enter symbols (see page 49).
䡲
Number
to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on the
keypad (see page 49).
䡲
Preset Msg
to enter preprogrammed messages
(see page 49).
䡲
Recent Msg
to enter a message from a list of previous
messages (see page 49).
䡲
Emoticons
to enter “smileys” (see page 49).
䡲
Text Options
to configure these options:
Auto-Capital, Used word Dic., Display Cand., Prediction Start,
Dual Language, and Insert Space (see page 50).
Tip:
When entering text, press the
*
(Shift) key to change letter capitalization
(
abc
>
Abc
>
ABC
) used on the current character.
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