User's Guide

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Your phone’s keypad
4 Your phone’s keypad
• ENTER CHARACTERS AND NUMBERS
Note: The following content focuses on
entering text messages, but also applies to
any screen that accepts keypad entry, such as
web addresses or names in the Phone book.
•Press Menu 01-1 (Messages - Write message)
to begin writing a message.
When the message entry screen first opens, you’ll be in text entry mode.
If you’d like to enter numbers, just press and hold until the icon in
the upper left corner of the display changes from Abc to 123.
Note: There are three types of text entry modes:
ABC - Any text you enter is capital letters
Abc - The first letter of each sentence is capitalized
abc - Any text you enter is lower case
Enter text
• Press any key (numbered 1-9) once to insert the first letter on the
key, twice for the second letter, and so on. When you pause, the
letter appearing in the display is accepted and your phone awaits the
next entry.
• Press to accept a word and enter a space
• Press to enter a period (.)
• Press to display special characters. More about special
characters on the following pages
•Press Clear to backspace and erase a character
•Press and hold Clear to backspace continuously, and erase