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• The most common punctuation marks are available
under . Press repeatedly to reach the
desired punctuation mark.
Press to open a list of special characters. Use
to move through the list, and press Select to select a
character.
• To insert a space, press . To move the cursor to
the next line, press three times.
• To switch between the different character cases Abc,
abc, and ABC, press .
Predictive text input—Dictionary
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 , and select
Dictionary 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
— . Press each key only once for one letter.
For example, to write ‘Nokia’ when the English
dictionary is selected, press for N, for o,
for k, for i, and for a.
The word suggestion changes after each key press.
3 When you finish writing the word and it is correct, to
confirm it, press , or press 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 , and select Dictionary > 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.
Tip! To set predictive text input on or off, press
twice quickly.
Tips on predictive text input
To erase a character, press . Press and hold to clear
more than one character.