Avaya NN43113-101 manual Entering text using the IP Deskphone dialpad

Using your IP Deskphone

You can use the following methods to enter and edit text on your IP Deskphone:

•“Entering text using the IP Deskphone dialpad” on page 65

•“Entering text using the USB keyboard” on page 70

Entering text using the IP Deskphone dialpad

For applications that offer text input, when you use the dialpad to enter text the system activates the abc/123 context-sensitive soft key.

You can toggle between numeric and alphabetic input as follows:

•When the context-sensitive soft key label is abc, you can enter alphabetic text.

•When the context-sensitive soft key label is 123, you can enter numbers.

Figure 14: Context-sensitive soft key abc/123

For example, if you want to enter the lower case letter a, press the abc/ 123 context-sensitive soft key to toggle to alphabetic input. Then press the number 2 key once. If you want to enter the upper case letter C, press the number 2 key six times. You can cycle through the letters (and the numeral) by pressing the number button repeatedly.

To create names or words that contain two adjacent letters that appear on the same button, for example, the word press, you can do the following:

1.To enter the first character, press the dialpad key 6.

2.Pause briefly.

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