Motorola i930 manual Enter Punctuation in Multipress Mode, Entering Text in T9 Mode

26 The Basics

Change the Multipress time out

1On the Home screen, select Start.

2Select Settings and then Accessibility.

3Select Multipress Timeout.

4In Multipress time out, select the length of the pause between keypresses.

5Select Done.

Enter Punctuation in Multipress Mode

•Press 1repeatedly until you see the punctuation mark that you want. Tip: To see all of the available symbols, press and hold #.

Entering Text in T9 Mode

To form a word in T9 mode, press the number keys that contain the letters you want. As you enter letters, T9 analyzes your keypresses and attempts to complete the word. For example, to enter the word “shoe,” press 7, 4, 6, 3.

Enter text in T9 mode

1Select T9 as your input mode.

2Enter letters by pressing the keys on which the letters appear. Press a key only once for each letter.

Tip: If your word is 3 letters long or longer, it is best to press the keys for at least the first 3 letters.

3If the word you want appears:

•Scroll right to accept the word and move the cursor to the end of the word.

•Scroll left to accept the word and move the cursor to the beginning of the word.

•Press #or O to accept the word and enter a space after it.

4If you want to view a list of available words, use the navigation pad to scroll up or down. When the word you want is highlighted:

•Scroll right to accept the word and move the cursor to the end of the word.

•Scroll left to accept the word and move the cursor to the beginning of the word.

•Press #or O to accept the word and enter a space after it.

If you do not see the correct word, backspace to delete the word you entered, press and hold * to change to Multipress mode, and then manually enter the word.

Enter compound words in T9 mode

You can string short words together to create longer, compound words like “mailman” or “cannot”.

1Enter the word that is the first part of the compound word, like “mail” or “can”.

2Scroll right to accept the word and move the cursor to the end of the word.

3Enter the word that is the next part of the compound word, like “man” or “not”.

Enter punctuation in T9 mode

•Press 1, then use the navigation pad to scroll through a list of common punctuation and select the one you want.