Microsoft Smartphone 2002 manual Entering text and numbers on your phone, Using the Quick List

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Using the Quick List

The Quick List displays a list of commands, such as locking your phone, locking the phone’s keypad, and turning off the radio, as well as the list of available profile types.

4To access the Quick List

§ Press the Power button.

Entering text and numbers on your phone

You can enter text and numbers on your phone using the keypad. Your phone supports three input modes for entering text and numbers: Multipress, T9, and Numeric. The Multipress and T9 modes are used for entering text, and the Numeric mode is used for entering numbers. When you select a field that requires text or numeric entry, the phone will automatically default to the appropriate input mode. The status indicator on the title bar shows the input mode you are currently using.

4To switch input modes

§Press and hold the Asterisk (*) key until the status indicator for the input mode you want is displayed in the title bar.

The following table shows the complete list of input mode status indicators.

Indicator Mode

Multipress text input mode, lowercase

Multipress text input mode, uppercase

Multipress text input mode, caps lock

T9 text input mode, lowercase

T9 text input mode, uppercase

T9 text input mode, caps lock

Numeric input mode

Entering text in Multipress mode

When you are in Multipress mode, you can enter a letter by pressing the number key on which the letter appears. To enter the first letter on the number key, press the key once, to enter the second letter, press the key twice, and so on. The letter entered most recently is underlined until you have completed the keypresses for the letter and moved on to the next letter.

For example:

§To enter the letter “s,” press 7777.

§To enter the word “hat,” press 44, 2, 8.

When you enter letters that are on the same number key, you must pause after entering the first letter and wait until the underline disappears before entering the next letter so your phone can process the first letter. This pause is called the Multipress time out, and you can adjust the length of the pause between keypresses.

For example:

§To enter the word “cat,” press 222, pause, press 2, and then press 8.

4To change the Multipress time out

1. On the Home screen, press the Programs soft key, select Settings, and then select Accessibility.