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Using on-screen keyboards
You can tap a text input field to activate the on-screen keyboard. You can switch between
three types of keyboards:
•
Mini QWERTY keyboard – keyboard in portrait mode.
•
Full QWERTY keyboard – keyboard in landscape mode.
•
Alphanumeric keypad – traditional keypad for alphanumeric characters.
Alphanumeric keypad
1
4
8
9
2
10
5
6
7
3
1 Close – tap to accept the text in the input window and close the on-screen keypad view
2 Options – tap to open the input options menu to change, for example, the Writing language or view Help
3 Text input indicator – tap to open a pop-up window, in which you can turn on or off predictive text input
mode, change the character case, and switch between letter and number mode
4 Input methods – tap to change to another input method: Mini QWERTY keyboard, Full QWERTY
keyboard or Handwriting
5 Left – tap to move the cursor to the left
6 Right – tap to move the cursor to the right
7 Backspace – tap to delete a letter to the left of the cursor
8 Symbol – tap to open the symbol table
9 Space – tap to enter a space or 0
10 Shift – tap to change the character case, turn on or off predictive text input mode, and switch between the
alphabet modes and number mode
To activate the alphanumeric keypad
1
Tap any text input field. For example, select Menu > Messaging > New message
and tap in the area of the screen under the To field.
2
A text input window pops up. Tap and select Alphanumeric keypad.
To enter text using predictive text input
1
If is not displayed in the text input indicator, tap and select Activate
predictive text.
2
Press each key only once, even if the letter you want is not the first letter on the key.
For example, to write the word “Jane”, tap
5
for J,
2
for a,
6
for n and
3
for e. Write the whole word before looking at the suggestions.
3
To view more word suggestions, tap the underlined word. Select a word.
4
To add a space, tap
0
.
5
To add symbols and punctuation marks, tap
*+
.
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