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Your phone’s keypad
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5 Your phone’s keypad
• ENTER CHARACTERS AND NUMBERS
Note:
The following focuses on entering
text into messages, but applies to any
screen that accepts keypad entry, such as
web addresses or names in the Phone book.
1
At the Start screen, press
Menu 01-1
(Messages - Write message). The message
entry screen opens in text entry mode.
2
To enter numbers, press and hold until the
Abc
icon in the upper
left corner of the display changes from
Abc
to
123
.
Note:
There are three types of text entry modes:
•
ABC
- Any text you enter is capital letters
•
Abc
- The first letter of each sentence is capitalized
•
abc
- Any text you enter is lower case
Enter text
• Press any key once to insert the first letter on the key, twice for the
second letter, and so on. When you pause, the letter appearing in the
display is accepted and your phone awaits the next entry.
• Press to accept a word and enter a space
• Press to enter a period (.)
• Press to display special characters. More about special
characters on the following pages
•Press
Clear
to backspace and erase a character
•Press and hold
Clear
to backspace continuously, and erase
• Use predictive text to write messages faster. See “Use predictive text”
on page 75 for more information