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Press to open a list of special characters. Use to move through the list, and press Select to select

a character.

To insert a space, press . To move the cursor to

the next line, press three times.

To switch between the different character cases Abc,

abc, and ABC, press .

Predictive text input—Dictionary

You can enter any letter with a single key press. Predictive text input is based on a built-in dictionary to which you can also add new words. When the dictionary becomes full, the latest added word replaces the oldest.

1To activate predictive

text input, press , and select Dictionary on. This activates predictive text input for all editors in the

phone. is shown on the top right of the display when you write text using predictive text input.

2To write the desired word, press the keys

. Press each key only once for one letter. For example, to write ‘Nokia’ when the English dictionary

is selected, press

for N,

for o,

for k,

for i, and

for a.

The word suggestion changes after each key press.

3When you finish writing the word and it is correct, to

confirm it, press , or press to add a space.

If the word is not correct, press repeatedly to view the matching words the dictionary has found one

by one, or press , and select Dictionary > Matches. If the ? character is shown after the word, the word you intended to write is not in the dictionary. To add a word to the dictionary, select Spell, enter the word (up to 32 letters) using traditional text input, and select OK. The word is added to the dictionary. When the dictionary becomes full, a new word replaces the oldest added word.

4Start writing the next word.

Tip! To set predictive text input on or off, press

twice quickly.

Tips on predictive text input

To erase a character, press . Press and hold to clear more than one character.

To change between the different character cases Abc, abc,

and ABC, press . If you press quickly twice, predictive text input is turned off.

Tip! Predictive text input tries to guess which commonly used punctuation mark (.,?!‘) is needed. The

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