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4. Write text
You can enter text, for example, when writing messages, using traditional or
predictive text input. When using traditional text input, press a number key, 1 to
9, repeatedly until the desired character appears. In predictive text input you can
enter a letter with a single keypress
When you write text, appears at the top left of the display, indicating
predictive text input, and appears, indicating traditional text input. ,
, or appears next to the text input indicator, indicating the character
case. To change the character case, press #. indicates number mode. To
change from the letter to number mode, press and hold #, and select Number
mode.

■Settings

To set the writing language to a language other than that selected in Phone
language, page77, select Options > Writing language. Predictive text input is
only available for the languages on the list.
To set the predictive text input option, select Options> Dictionary on, or to set
traditional text input option select Options > Dictionary off.

■Predictive text input

Predictive text input allows you to write text quickly using the phone keypad and
a built-in dictionary.