Tips On Text Input - Nokia Mobile Phone User Manual

Traditional text input
Press a number key (1–9) repeatedly until the desired
character appears. There are more characters available for a
number key than are printed on the key.
If the next letter is located on the same key as the present
one, wait until the cursor appears (or scroll right to end the
time-out period), and enter the letter.
To insert a space, press 0. To move the cursor to the next line,
press 0 three times.
Predictive text input
1. To activate or deactivate predictive text input, press #
twice quickly. This activates or deactivates predictive text
input for all editors in the device.
predictive text input is activated.
2. To write the desired word, press the keys 2-9. Press each
key once for each letter.
3. When you have finished writing the word, and it is correct,
scroll right to confirm it, or press 0 to add a space.
If the word is not correct, press * repeatedly to view the
matching words in the dictionary.
If the ? character is displayed 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 is
full, the new word replaces the oldest added word.
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Write the first part of a compound word; to confirm it, scroll
right. Write the second part of the compound word. To
complete the compound word, press 0 to add a space.

Tips on text input

To insert a number in the letter mode, press and hold the
desired number key.
To switch between the different character modes, press #.
To delete a character, press C. To delete more than one
character, press and hold C.
The most common punctuation marks are available under
1. To scroll them through one by one, if you use traditional
text input, press 1 repeatedly. If you use predictive text input,
press 1, and then * repeatedly.
indicates that
To open a list of special characters, press and hold *.
Change the writing language
When you are writing text, you can change the writing
language. For example, if you are writing text using a non-
Latin alphabet and want to write Latin characters, such as e-
mail or web addresses, you may need to change the writing
language.
To change the writing language, select
language
After changing the writing language, for example, if you press
6 repeatedly to reach a specific character, changing the
Tip: To select several special characters from the
special characters list, press 5 after each highlighted
character.
and a writing language that uses Latin characters.
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