Text Entry

Your phone provides three text entry modes to enter characters.

 

Multi-tap

A traditional way to type in a letter. Press a

 

key several times until the required letter

Alpha

mode

appears.

 

mode

 

 

Dictionary

A predictive text entry system. You can

 

 

mode (T9®)

enter a word with fewer key press.

Number

 

You can enter numbers (0-9), e and r.

mode

 

 

 

Selecting a Writing language

To change the writing language, see Writing language setting on page 38.

Selecting a text mode

An icon on the upper right corner of the screen shows the current text mode and letter case.

To change the letter case mode: Press [r] repeatedly until the icon for the desired mode appears

Icon

Abc

abc

ABC*1

mAbc

mabc

mABC*1

Dictionary

 

On

 

 

Off

 

Letter case

Auto

Lower

Upper

Auto

Lower

Upper

case

case

case

case

 

 

 

*1 Available only after alphabetical letters.

To toggle between Alpha mode and Number mode: Press and hold [r]

Auto capital change

When the letter case is auto (T9 Abc and m Abc), the first character is input as upper case and subsequent letters as lower case. Enter one of the following characters [. (Period) ! ? ¡ ¿], the next character is input as upper case.

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Panasonic EB-X800 manual Text Entry, Selecting a Writing language, Selecting a text mode, Auto capital change