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Address and phone books

Address and phone books

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Text input

Using the keypad

Each key on your phone’s keypad contains a number of characters.

The keypad can be operated in 4 ways: Alphanumeric grid and wheel mode, T9 mode, which is very use- ful in connection with SMS mes- sages, plus digit-only mode.

Switching between the different modes is done by pressing the side key on the right-hand of the phone.

Press »CLEAR« briefly to delete one character.

Press »CLEAR« for one second to delete the entire text.

grid mode

Press the relevant key for the intended letter, e.g. B. Now a table is shown in the display. Press the key corresponding to the intended letter (B = 2).

Which characters available on each key will depend on the key- pad language you have selected for your phone (see p. 64). Additional language specific characters are

accessed by pressing .

The first letter will always be capi- talized, which is indicated by the symbol in the upper right-hand corner of the display. The second letter will automatically be lower-

case. Press if you want to enter a capital letter again.

The caps lock function is enabled

by pressing twice. As long as the caps lock is active, the sym- bol will be seen in the upper right-hand corner of the display.

Press again to disable the caps lock function.

Press if you want to enter

digits. Press the relevant key to enter the intended digit.

To get punctuation and symbols

press . You now have access to five different pages, each con- taining up to 9 symbols. You can scroll through the pages using the arrow keys. Press the relevant key to enter the intended symbol, e.g. on page one, 7 corresponds to “@”.

wheel mode

The characters available on each key can be seen in the table below.

Press once to enter the first charac- ter, twice to enter the second char- acter, etc.

Press 3 times if you want to enter a capital letter. To activate the caps lock function, press

4 times. Press it once again to deactivate the function.

mode

T9® Text Input is a feature enabling you to more easily use SMS mes- saging. The T9 feature allows you to compose text messages with only one keypress per letter. See p. 40.

mode

In this mode you can enter only digits.

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Siemens S42 manual Text input, Using the keypad, Grid mode, Wheel mode, Mode