User's Manual

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The Basics
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When you are in T9 mode, just press the number keys that contain the letters
you want to form a word. T9 will then analyze your keypresses and attempt to
complete the word.
For example:
• To enter the word "shoe", press 7, 4, 6, 3.
To enter tex t using T9 mode
1.Press and hold the Asterisk (* ) key until the T9 indicator appears on the top
of the display.
2.Enter the numerical sequence that represents the word you want to enter.
3.Press the
Pound (# ) key to accept the word and enter a space after it, or
press
0 to scroll through the available words.
4.If you do not see the correct word, erase the word, and then press and hold
the
Asterisk (* ) key to change to Multipress mode, and manually enter the
word.
Having trouble entering a word in T9 m ode?
T9 cannot always find the word you want in the T9 dictionary; in these cases,
change to Multipress mode. After you have entered the word in Multipress
mode, the word will be added to the T9 dictionary.
To ent er punctuat ion in T9 m ode
• Press 1, then 0 to scroll through common punctuation.
Entering numbers in Numeric mode
When you are in Numeric mode, just press the number(s) you want to enter
on the keypad. If a field permits a numerical entry only, such as the Work
phone field in Contacts, the input mode will automatically default to Numeric
mode.
Miscellaneous input t asks
To ent er a space
• I n Multipress or T9 mode, press the Pound (# ) key on the keypad.
To start a new line