Samsung Digimax S500 - Manual (Page 23)

Entering Text
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Inserting a Space
To insert a space between words, press the key.
Entering a Hindi Number directly
To enter a hindi number, press and hold the number
key in Hindi mode.
Scrolling
To move the cursor to the left or right within the
text, press the Left or Right key.
Clearing Letters and Words
To clear the letter to the left of the cursor, press the
C key. You can clear all of the letters on the display
by pressing and holding the C key.
Returning to the Previous Screen
When the text input field is cleared, press and hold
the C key to return to the previous screen.
Using the T9 Mode
To type a word in the T9 mode:
1. Start entering the word by pressing keys 2 to 9.
Press each key only once for each letter.
Example: To enter “hello” in the T9 mode, press
the 4, 3, 5, 5, and 6 keys.
The word you are typing appears on the display.
It may change with each key that you press.
2. Enter the whole word before editing or deleting
any keystrokes.
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3. If the word is correct, start entering the next
word. Otherwise, press the 0 key repeatedly to
display alternative word choices for the keys
that you have pressed.
Example: Both “of” and “me” have the sequence
of 6 and 3. The phone displays the
most commonly used choice first.
4. Insert a space between words by pressing the
key.
If Spell appears above the left soft key while you
are entering text, the word does not exist in the T9
dictionary. To type words not found in the T9 mode,
change the text input mode to the ABC mode, or
proceed as follows:
1. Press the Spell soft key, or press the right soft
key and select the Add word option.
2. Enter the word you want to add using the ABC
mode (see page 44) and press the Ok soft key.
The word is saved in the T9 dictionary and
inserted in the input field.
3. Continue entering other words in the T9 mode.
Smart Punctuation
To enter periods, hyphens or apostrophes, press the
1 key. The T9 mode applies rules of grammar to
insert the correct punctuation.
Example: The 1 key is used twice to display two
punctuation marks.
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