Nokia N96 manual Write and send messages, Change the writing language, Edit text and lists, 122

Messaging

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To delete a character, press C. To delete more than one character, press and hold C.

The most common punctuation marks are available under 1. To scroll them through one by one, if you use traditional text input, press 1 repeatedly. If you use predictive text input, press 1, and then * repeatedly. To open a list of special characters, press and hold *.

Tip: To select several special characters from the special characters list, press 5 after each highlighted character.

Change the writing language

When you are writing text, you can change the writing language. For example, if you are writing text using a non-Latin alphabet and want to write Latin characters, such as e-mail or web addresses, you may need to change the writing language.

To change the writing language, select Options > Writing language and a writing language that uses Latin characters.

After changing the writing language, for example, if you press 6 repeatedly to reach a specific character, changing the writing language gives you access to characters in a different order.

Edit text and lists

To copy and paste text, while pressing and holding #, scroll left or right to highlight text. To copy the text to the clipboard, while still holding #, select Copy. To insert the text into a document, press and hold #, and select Paste.

To mark an item in a list, scroll to it, and press #.

To mark multiple items in a list, press and hold # while you scroll up or down. To end the selection, stop scrolling, and release #.

Write and send messages

Press , and select Messaging.

Before you can create a multimedia message or write an e-mail, you must have the correct connection settings in place. See "Define the e-mail

settings", p. 125.