Motorola T280i manual General Text Entry Rules, Character Chart

GENERAL TEXT ENTRY RULES

Press a number key repeatedly to cycle through its characters. See "Character Chart" on page 39.

--Press a number key as many times as necessary to enter the desired character at flashing cursor location.

--Press and hold a number key to cycle between text entry modes.

--Press 4-Way UP or Down to change letter in block cursor to uppercase or lowercase.

--Press 4-Way LEFT or Right to move flashing cursor to the left or right in text message.

--If you do not press a key for two seconds, the character in the block cursor is accepted, and the cursor moves to the next position.

--The first character of every sentence is capitalized. (Press 4-Way Down to force the character to lowercase while it is highlighted by the block cursor.) ###39

--Your phone may support multiple languages. The current language setting determines whether a new message begins on the left or right side of the display.

You can switch languages within a text message. Press MENU then Entry Method from any text entry screen to select the text mode and language you want to use.

CHARACTER CHART

Use this chart as a guide for entering spaces, letters, numbers, and symbols with the tap method.

The number of times each key is pressed is shown in the chart below.

1:

Press once: Space

Press two times: Period

Press three times: 1

Press four times: Question mark

Press five times: Exclamation point

Press six times: Comma

Press seven times: "at" sign

Press eight times: Underscore

Press nine times: Ampersand

Press ten times: Tilde

Press eleven times: Colon

Press twelve times: Semicolon

Press thirteen times: Quotation mark

Press fourteen times: Hyphen

Press fifteen times: Open parentheses

Press sixteen times: Close parentheses

Press seventeen times: Apostrophe

Press eighteen times: Opening interrogation mark

Press nineteen times: Opening exclamation point

Press twenty times: Percent sign