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30 Section 2A: Your wireless Phone – The Basics
Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your wireless Phone provides convenient ways to enter words,
letters, punctuation, and numbers whenever you are
prompted to enter text (for example, when adding a Contacts
entry or when using your wireless Mail and
SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1. When you display a screen where you can enter text,
select Mode (right softkey).
2. Select one of the following options:
Abc to cycle through the alpha characters associated
with the letters on the keypad (see page 33).
T9Word to enter text using a predictive text entering
system that reduces the number of keys that need to
be pressed while entering a word
(see page 31).
123 to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on
the keypad (see page 34).
Symbolsto enter symbols (see page 34).
Smileysto enter “emoticons”(see page 34).
Preset Msg to enter pre-programmed messages (see
page 34).
Tip:
When entering text, press the
*
(Shift) key to change letter
capitalization (Abc > ABC > abc).
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