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Entering Characters Using ABC Mode1. Selectthe Abcmode. (See “Selecting a TextInput Mode”
onpage 37.)
2. Press the corresponding keys repeatedly until the correct
letter appears. (For example, to enter the word “Bill,”
press twice, three times, three times,
and three times again.) (If you make a mistake,
press to erase a single character. Press and hold
toerase an entire word.)
By default, the firstletter of an entry is capitalized and the
following letters are lowercased. After a character is entered,
thecursor automatically advances to the nextspace after two
seconds or when you enter a character on a differentkey.
Characters scroll in the following order:
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., @ 1 ‘? ! * # / PQR S 7
ABC 2 TUV 8
DEF3 WXYZ9
GHI4 0
JKL5 Space
MNO6 Shift