Telephone User Manual
Section 2A: Your Phone
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Entering Text
Selecting a Character Input Mode
Your phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters,
punctuation, and numbers whenever you are prompted to
enter text (for example, when adding a Contacts entry or
when using SMS Text Messaging).
To change the character input mode:
1. When you display a screen where you can enter text,
press to change the character input mode.
2. Select one of the following options:
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Alphabet to cycle through the alpha characters
associated with the letters on the keypad (see
page 32).
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Number to enter numbers by pressing the numbers
on the keypad (see page 33).
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T9 Word to enter text using a predictive text entering
system that reduces the amount of keys that need to
be pressed while entering a word (see page 30).
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Symbolsto enter “ symbols” (see page 33).
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Smileysto enter “ smile pictures” (see page 33).
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Preset Msg. to enter preprogrammed messages
(see page 33).
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TextOptions enter text options.
Tip: When entering text, press to change letter capitalization
(Abc > ABC > abc).
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