Text entry
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3. Text entry
You can use two methods for entering text and numbers: Standard mode and
Predictive text mode.
Select Clear to backspace the cursor and delete a character. Select and hold Clear
to backspace continuously and delete characters.
■ Standard mode
Standard mode is the only way to enter text into the contacts list and to rename
caller groups.
Text (Abc)
• Press a key once to insert the first letter on the key, twice for the second letter.
If you pause briefly, the last letter in the display is accepted, and your phone
awaits the next entry.
• Press 0 to enter a space, thereby accepting a completed word.
• Press 1 to insert a period into your message.
•Press * to display a complete list of special characters.
• Press # to switch between uppercase, lowercase, and sentence case text, and
between standard and predictive text mode. Case and mode are indicated by
the following icons that appear in the upper left of the display screen:
Sentence case text: standard mode is on.
Lowercase text: standard mode is on.
Uppercase text: standard mode is on.
Sentence case text: predictive text mode is on.
Lowercase text: predictive text mode is on.
Uppercase text: predictive text mode is on.
Numbers (123)
To switch to 123 mode from Abc mode, press and hold # at any text entry screen
until the icon in the upper left corner of the display switches from Abc to 123 or back.
In text modes (Abc, abc, ABC and predictive text), you can also enter the number
by holding the number key down.