Nokia 7280 - Manual (Page 26)

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Text entry
You can enter letters, numbers, and special characters into your phone while
writing a text message from the character bar at the bottom of a text entry
screen. Scroll to the character you want by rotating the spinner, and press
Select .
To speed up the selection, you can use a method called predictive text, which
uses a built-in phone dictionary. The characters in predictive text depend on the
previously selected characters. If you do not use predictive text, the characters
are shown in alphabetical order.
Activate predictive text
At any text entry screen, select Options > Prediction on . When predictive text is
on, is shown at the top of the screen and the characters appear blue.
Use the character bar
• Select and rotate the spinner to move the cursor in the text. Select
Continue to continue entering text.
• Select the space in the character bar to enter a space.
• Select to enter uppercase text.
• Select to enter lowercase text.
• Select to enter accented characters.
• Select to enter numbers.
• Select to enter special characters.
Some of these functions can also be used by selecting Options and the option you
want. If you need to accept text, select Options > Accept .
Other tips for text entry
• To delete a character to the left of the cursor, select Clear . Select and hold
Clear to delete the characters more quickly.
• To delete all the characters at once when writing a message, select Options >
Clear text .
• To allow the characters to be accessed in a continuous loop, select Options >
Looping on .
• To change the input language to another language, press Select , then select
Writing language and the language you want.