Entering Text
Entering Text With the Numeric Keypad
Selecting a Text Input Mode
Your phone provides convenient ways to enter words, letters,
punctuation, and numbers whenever you are prompted to
enter text (for example, when adding a Contacts entry or
when using Sprint Mail and SMS Text Messaging).
1. From a screen where you can enter text, press the right
softkey to change the text input mode.
2. Selectone of the following options:
Ⅲ
Abctocycle through the alpha characters associated
with the letters on the keypad (see page 39).
Ⅲ
T9Wordto enter text using a predictive text-entry
system that reduces the number of keystrokes
required to enter a word (see page 38).
Ⅲ
123to enter numbers by pressing the numbers on
the keypad (see page 40).
Ⅲ
Symbolsto enter symbols (see page 40).
Ⅲ
Smileysto enter “emoticons”(see page 40).
Ⅲ
Settingsto enter messages settings.
Ⅲ
RecentMessages to enter a recent message.
Ⅲ
PresetMessagesto enter preprogrammed messages
(see page 40).
Ⅲ
PresetSuffixto enter preset prefixes and suffixes
such as http://www., https://www., www., .com,
.net , .org, .edu, .wap, //, “, “”, (), {}, [], <>, and<<>>.
Tip
When entering text, press the
*
(Shift) key to change letter
capitalization (Abc>ABC>abc).
Tip
For faster text entry in most applications, see "Entering Text
With the QWERTY Keyboard" on page 41.
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