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Write text, Traditional text input, Predictive text input – Nokia N72 User Manual

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conditions from your service provider. For available topics
and relevant topic numbers, contact your service provider.
In the main view of

Messaging

, select

Options

>

Cell

broadcast

. In the main view you can see the status of a

topic, a topic number, name, and whether it has been
flagged (

) for follow-up.

Write text

Traditional text input

,

, and

indicate the selected character

mode.

indicates number mode.

is displayed when you are writing text using

traditional text input.

• Press a number key (

) repeatedly until the

desired character appears. There are more characters
available for a number key than are printed on the key.

• To insert a number, press and hold the number key.
• To switch between letter and number mode, press and

hold .

• If the next letter is located on the same key as the

present one, wait until the cursor appears (or press

to end the time-out period), and enter the letter.

• To erase a character, press

. Press and hold

to

clear more than one character.

• The most common punctuation marks are available

under

. Press

repeatedly to reach the desired

punctuation mark.
Press

to open a list of special characters. Use

to move through the list, and select a character.

• To insert a space, press

. To move the cursor to the

next line, press

three times.

• To switch between the different character modes, press

.

Predictive text input—Dictionary

You can enter any letter with a single keypress. Predictive
text input is based on a built-in dictionary to which you
can also add new words. When the dictionary becomes full,
the latest added word replaces the oldest.

1

To activate predictive text
input, press

, and

select

Dictionary on

. This

activates predictive text
input for all editors in the
device.

is

displayed

when you write text using
predictive text input.

2

To write the desired word,
press the keys

.

Press each key only once for one letter. For example, to
write "Nokia" when the English dictionary is selected,