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Predictive text input—Predictive text
You can enter any letter with a single key press. Predictive
text input is based on a built-in dictionary to which you
can also add new words. When the dictionary becomes full,
the latest added word replaces the oldest.
1 To activate predictive text
input, press the edit key,
and select Predictive text
on. This activates predictive
text input for all editors in
the phone. is shown
on the top right of the
display when you write
text using predictive
text input.
2 To write the desired word, press the keys 2–9. Press
each key only once for one letter. For example, to write
“Nokia” when the English dictionary is selected, press 6
for N, 6 for o, 5 for k, 4 for i, and 2 for a.
The word suggestion changes after each key press.
3 When you finish writing the word and it is correct, to
confirm it, scroll right or press 0 to add a space.
If the word is not correct, press * repeatedly to view the
matching words the dictionary has found one by one; or
press the edit key, and select Predictive text > Matches.
If the ? character is shown after the word, the word
you intended to write is not in the dictionary. To add a
word to the dictionary, select Spell, enter the word (up
to 32 letters) using traditional text input, and select
OK. The word is added to the dictionary. When the
dictionary becomes full, a new word replaces the oldest
added word.
4 Start writing the next word.
To set predictive text input on or off, press # twice quickly.
Tips on predictive text input
To erase a character, press the clear key. Press and hold the
clear key to clear more than one character.
To change between the different character cases Abc, abc,
and ABC, press #. If you press # quickly twice, predictive
text input is turned off.
Tip! Predictive text input tries to guess which
commonly used punctuation mark (.,?!‘) is needed.
The order and availability of the punctuation
marks depend on the language of the dictionary.
To insert a number in letter mode, press and hold the
desired number key.
To switch between letter and number mode, press and
hold #.