Entering Text 68Using 123ABC Mode in SWYPEIn 123ABC mode, you can enter only letters and a few commonpunctuation marks from the onscreen keyboard. The text modekey shows .1. From a screen where you can enter text, tap the text inputfield to reveal the on-screen keyboard.Note: An on-screen landscape keyboard is not available since in thisorientation you can use the QWERTY keyboard found below the screen.2. Tap to configure the keyboard for 123ABC mode(showing letters and numbers on the onscreen keys). Oncein this mode, the text input type shows .Note: After typing an initial uppercase character, the key changes toand all letters that follow in the same sentence are in lower case.The first letter of every new sentence is displayed as all uppercase.3. Swipe your finger continuously over the letters to form aword.– If you make a mistake, tap to erase a single character. Touchand hold to erase an entire word.4. Tap to send the message.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.To enter text via Swype: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.SYMABC123SYMSendAll lowercaseDisplays when the next character is entered inlowercase.Initial UppercaseDisplays when the next character is entered asuppercase but all subsequent characters arelowercase.All UppercaseDisplays when all characters will be entered asuppercase characters.
