Nokia 6170 - Manual (Page 27)

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Compound words
Enter the first part of the word and scroll right to confirm it. Enter the last part
of the word and confirm it by pressing 0.
Add new words to the dictionary
If you encounter a word that predictive text does not recognize, ? follows the
word, and Spell appears in the bottom center of the display.
Select Spell, enter your new word using the keypad, and select Save. The word
is added to the dictionary and to the message that you are writing. When the
dictionary is full, the most recent addition replaces the first.
• Tips for writing text
• Press 0 to enter a space, and press 1 to enter a period (.).
• To move the cursor left or right, scroll left or right.
• To delete a character, select Clear. Select and hold Clear to continuously
delete characters. Select Options > Clear text to delete all of the characters
at once when writing a message.
• To switch between upper and lower case, or between traditional and predictive
text, press # repeatedly, and check the indicator at the top of the display.
• To switch between letters and numbers, press and hold #.
• To enter a number, press and hold the desired key.
• To display special characters, press * . (Press and hold * in predictive text.)
Press * again to display smileys. Scroll to the character you want, and
select Insert. In traditional text entry, to enter punctuation marks and
other special characters, press 1 repeatedly.