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T e x t e n t r y
Activate or deactivate
At any text entry screen, select Options > Predictive text > English, Français, or Español to activate predictive text; or select Prediction off to deactivate predictive text.
Text entry
The illustration below simulates your display each time a key is pressed. For example, to write ’Nokia’ with predictive text on and the English dictionary selected, press each of the following keys:
6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
•Press 0 to enter a space, and begin writing the next word.
If a displayed word is not correct, press * to see other matches. To return to the previous word in the list of matches, select Previous.
•If ? appears after a word, select Spell to enter the word with the standard mode, and add the word to the dictionary.
•Press 1 to insert a period into your message.
•Press and hold * to display special characters. Press * again to cycle through all available characters.
■Change case and mode
Press # to switch between uppercase, lowercase, and sentence case text; and between standard and predictive text mode. Case and mode are indicated by the icons that appear in the upper left of the display screen, as follows:
Uppercase text: standard mode is on.
Lowercase text: standard mode is on.
Sentence case text: standard mode is on.
This option is available only at the beginning of a sentence.
Uppercase text: predictive text is on.
Lowercase text: predictive text is on.
Sentence case text: predictive text is on.
This option is available only at the beginning of a sentence.
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