Using The English Mode (T9) - Samsung SGH-T500 Owner's Manual

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Using the English Mode (T9)

To type a word, proceed as follows.
1. Start entering the word by pressing keys
to . Press each key only once for
each letter.
Example: To enter Hello in the T9 mode, press
, ,
The word you are typing appears in the display. It
may change with each key that you press.
2. Enter the whole word before editing or deleting any
keystrokes.
3. If the word is correct, start entering the next word.
Otherwise, press
word choices for the keys that you have pressed.
Example: Both "of" and "me" have the sequence
and
most commonly used choice first.
4. Complete each word with a space by pressing
To type words not found in the T9 mode, change the
text input mode to the ABC mode.
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and
repeatedly to display other
. The phone displays the
Smart Punctuations
To enter periods, hyphens or apostrophes, press
The T9 mode applies rules of grammar to insert the
correct punctuation.
Example: The
,
l
Changing Case
To change the case of the next letter(s) that you type,
press
• Lower Case
• Initial Capitals
• Capital Lock
Scrolling
• To move the cursor to the left or right within the
text, press
• To scroll through other word choices for the keys
.
you have entered, press
Clearing Letters and Words
To clear letters to the left of the cursor, press
one or more times. To erase entire words, hold
down
key is used twice to display two
punctuation marks.
e t ' s e
. There are three case states:
or .
.
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