Create new – Samsung SGH-T229SRATMB User Manual

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The Message icon (

) displays when you have received a new text message. When the memory is full, the

message icon flashes on your phone and you cannot receive any new messages. You must delete a message
before you can receive additional messages.

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Use the Delete option in each message box to erase obsolete messages.

Create new

In this menu, you can write and send a text message.

Creating a Simple Text Message

In Idle mode, press Menu

➔

Messages

➔

Create new and press the Select soft key or the

key.

Highlight Text message and press the Select soft key or the

key.

Create your message.

Note: For further details about entering characters, see “Changing the Text Input Mode” on page 33.

You can enter up to 160 standard Alphabet characters per page in your message. The message can be up to 12 pages long for a
total of 1920 characters.

When you finish entering your message, press the Options soft key. The following options are available:

• Insert from: allows you to insert from the Text template, Phonebook, or Bookmarks. The Text messages template allows you to

apply one of the preset message templates to the text. Select one of the 10 items stored in the Text messages Template
menu. Phonebook allows you to add names and phone numbers to your message. Bookmarks allows you to add Internet
addresses to
your message.

• Add content: allows you to add a picture, animation, or melody

to your message.

• Attach: allows you to attach a Name card, Schedule, Anniversary item, Miscellaneous item, Task, or Note to your message.

• Save to Drafts: saves the message to the Drafts folder.

• Select language: allows you to set the language to English, Français, and Español.

• Text style: allows you to format the style of the text.

For the Text size, Large, Medium, and Small size are available. Text mode options are Normal, Underline, and Strikethrough.
The options for Bold and Italic are set by using the

key to place a checkmark by them. Alignment options are Left, Center,

and Right.