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Note: Do not pay attention to what appears on the display. The word match is
evolving, wait until you have keyed in the whole word before you check the
result.
For example, to write ‘Nokia’ when English dictionary is selected, press
for N,
for o,
for k,
for i, and
for a.
As you can see in Fig. 1, p. 61, the word suggestion changes after each key press.
2 When you have finished the word, check that it is correct.
• If the word is correct, you can confirm it by moving the joystick to the right or by
pressing to insert a space. The underlining disappears and you can begin to
write a new word.
• If the word is not correct, you have the following options:
• Press repeatedly to view the matching words the dictionary has found one
by one.
• Press and select Dictionary→ Matches to view a list of matching words.
Scroll to the word you want to use and press the joystick to select it.
Icons: and
indicate the
selected case.
means that the first letter
in the message or the first
letter after a full stop is
written in upper case and
other letters are written
in lower case.
indicates number mode.
• 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, press Spell, key in the word (max. 32
letters) using traditional text input, and press Save. The word is added to the
dictionary. When the dictionary becomes full, a new word replaces the oldest added
word.
• To remove the ? and clear characters one by one from the word, press .
Tips on using predictive text input
• To erase a character, press . Press and hold to clear more than one
character.
• To change between upper and lower case, press .
Fig. 1 Predictive text
input