Nokia N6270 manual Write text, Settings, Predictive text input

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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, or appears at the top 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 while writing text, select Options > Writing language.

When writing text, select Options > Prediction settings.

To set predictive text input on or revert to traditional text input, select Prediction > On or Off.

To select the prediction type, select Prediction type > Normal or Word suggestions. If you select Normal,

indicated with , the phone predicts the word on the basis of the characters you entered. If you select Word suggestions, indicated with

, the phone predicts and completes the word before you enter all the characters.

Tip: To quickly set predictive text input on or off when writing text, press # twice, or select and hold Options.

■Predictive text input

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

1.Start writing a word using the 2 to 9 keys. Press each key only once for one letter. The phone displays * or the letter if it separately has a meaning as a word. The entered letters are displayed underlined.

If you selected Word suggestions as prediction type, the phone starts to predict the word you are writing. After you enter a few letters, and if these entered letters are not a word, the phone

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