Nokia 1260 Save a word in the dictionary, Enter numbers, Enter punctuation and special characters

3Scroll to Prediction off, then press Select. T9 prediction off appears.

Tip: Press to turn predictive text on and off.

Save a word in the dictionary

If the word Options changes to Spell, the word you intended to write is not in the dictionary. You can add the word to predictive text.

1Press Spell and enter the word(s) using standard text entry.

2Press OK to save the word(s).

Enter numbers

1To add a number to the message, press and hold until appears on the screen.

2Enter the numbers you want, then press and hold to return to

the method.

Note: You can also enter numbers from the Options menu (Insert number), or by a long press of the number key.

Enter punctuation and special characters

There are two ways to enter punctuation when using predictive text.

Press and hold to access the special characters list. See “Use special characters” on page 32 for more information.

You can also enter symbols from the Options menu:

1From the message screen, press Options.

2Scroll to Insert symbol and press Select.

3Scroll to the symbol you want and press Insert.

Change the case

Predictive text uses sentence case, but you can manually change between

upper and lower case by pressing .

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