Understanding Your Phone 352. Capitalization in this mode can be altered by using theCaps button.first character is uppercaseall characters are uppercasenext character is lowercase3. Swipe your finger continuous (without lifting your finger)over the letters to form a word.• If you make a mistake, tap to erase a single character.• Touch and hold to erase an entire word.By default, the first letter of an entry is capitalized and thefollowing letters are lower case. After a word is entered and youlift your finger, the cursor automatically adds a space after theword.Entering Numbers and SymbolsBy using the onscreen keyboard in Portrait mode, some symbolsare not available (such as Emoticons or Smileys). In SYM modeusing Swype, you can only enter symbols and numbers from theonscreen keyboard. The text mode key shows .While in this mode, the text mode key displays .To enter numbers and symbols:1. Tap to enter the SYM (symbol) mode.2. Touch the key for the number or symbol you want to enter.3. Tap to enter alternate symbols displayed at the top ofthe key.To enter text:This example shows a user entering the word “there”. Put yourfinger down on the “t”, and without lifting, glide it to the “h”, andthen to the “e”, and then over to the “r”, and back to the “e”.When complete, lift your finger off the screen to allow the deviceto determine the closest word match.Note: If multiple word choices exist for your Swype entry, an onscreenpopup appears to provide additional word choices.1. Touch an onscreen character, and without lifting yourfinger, drag your fingertip to the next character in the word.2. Repeat this process until the desired characters are traced.• If prompted, select from an onscreen list of possible word matches.This occurs when the keystrokes generates more than one possibleword match.Touch for Swype tips and follow the onscreen information.ABC123SYMSYMSCH-M828UM.book Page 35 Thursday, September 1, 2011 3:43 PM
