Nokia 6215i User Manual

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T e x t e n t r y183. Text entryYour phone offers four methods for entering text and numbers: Abc, ABC or abc(sentence case, uppercase, and lowercase), Word (sentence case, uppercase, andlowercase), 123, and Symbols. The following rules apply when entering text:• Press CLR to backspace the cursor and delete a character.• Press and hold CLR to backspace continuously and delete all characters.• Press # to enter a space, thereby accepting a completed word, when in thesubject or text area of a message or entering a contact or group name.• Press 1 to enter the symbol mode when in the subject or text area of a message.• Press * to switch between sentence case (the first letter of entries or sentencesis capitalized and the following letters are lower case), uppercase and lowercasein abc or word modes when in the text area of a message, or entering a contactor group name.• The entry mode selection key (usually the left selection key) displays thecurrently selected entry mode (Abc, Word, 123, or Symbols).■ Abc (multi-tap) modeIn the abc (or multi-tap) mode, to enter a letter, repeatedly press a key until theletter you want appears.Activate abc modePress the entry mode selection key, and select Abc for sentence case or ABC foruppercase. Press * to switch among sentence case, uppercase, and lowercase (abc).Abc mode text entryPress a key once to insert the first letter on the key, twice for the second letter,and so on. If you pause briefly, the last letter in the display is accepted, and yourphone awaits the next entry.■ Word modeWord mode is a predictive method of text entry using your keypad and the built-indictionary to quickly recognize the most commonly used word for a specific keysequence. Word mode is much faster than the abc method because you onlypress the corresponding key on your keypad once for each letter.