LG Electronics 5550 manual Text Input

Entering and Editing Information

Text Input

You can input and edit your Greeting, Notepad, Phone Book, and Messaging.

Key Functions

Right Soft Key: Press to scroll through the following text input modes:

T9Word ->Abc ->123 ->Symbols ->

Smileys.

Shift: Press to change case.

T9 text: T9Word ->T9WORD ->T9word

Abc text: Abc ->ABC ->abc

Next: In T9 mode, press to display other matching words.

Space: Press to complete a word and insert a space.

Back: Press to delete a single space or character. Hold to delete the entire message.

Punctuation: In T9 mode, press to insert a punctuation and complete a sentence.

Text Input Modes

There are five modes for entering text, numbers, special characters, and punctuation. In a text entry field, pressing Right Soft Key displays a pop-up list of text modes.

T9Word (T9) Mode

Use to type text using one keystroke per letter. The phone translates keystrokes into common words by using the letters on each key and a compressed database.

Abc (Multi-tap) Mode

Use to add words to the T9 database.

123 (Numbers) Mode

Use to type numbers using one keystroke per number.

Symbols Mode

Use to insert special characters or punctuation. There are 35 special characters including “SP” which inserts a space and “LF” which forces the text to the next line.

Smileys Mode

Use to insert smiley graphics. There are 36 smiley characters.

Changing Letter Case

Using T9 and Abc text input, you can set the Capitalization

mode. Press to cycle through the following:

Initial Cap (T9Word / Abc)

Only the first letter is capitalized. All subsequent letters are lower case.

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