Nokia 2865 manual Predictive text mode, Punctuation and special characters, Activate or deactivate

T e x t e n t r y

Punctuation and special characters

While at any text entry screen, press * to display special characters (press and hold * if predictive text is on). Press * again to cycle through all available characters. Scroll to navigate through the list of special characters. Once a character is highlighted, select Insert to insert the character into your message.

■Predictive text mode

Predictive text input allows you to write messages quickly using your keypad and the built-in dictionary. It is much faster than the standard mode method, because for each letter, you only press the corresponding key on your keypad once.

Activate or deactivate

At any text entry screen, select and hold Options to turn predictive text on or off depending on previous mode, or select Options > Predictive text > Prediction on or Prediction off. Press # twice to change from predictive text mode to standard mode and back.

Enter text

The illustration below simulates your display each time a key is pressed. For example, to write ’Nokia’ with predictive text on and with the English dictionary selected, press each of the following keys once:

6 6 5 4 2

Press 0 to enter a space and begin writing the next word. If a displayed word is not correct, press * to see other matches. To return to the previous word in the list of matches, select Prev.

If ? appears after a word, it is not in the dictionary. Select Spell to add the word to the dictionary.

Press 1 to insert a period into your message.

Press and hold:

•* to display special characters. Press * again to cycle through all available characters.

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