Abc Mode; Predictive Text - Samsung Galaxy S III mini User Manual

ABC Mode

1. If desired, rotate your device counterclockwise to a
Landscape orientation.
2. When you touch the Enter message field, the QWERTY
keyboard displays.
3. Touch the desired alphabetic characters.
4. The screen initially opens in ABC mode. After typing the
first letter, the shift key
following letters will be lowercase.
5. Touch to input another upper case letter or touch
twice to switch to ABC mode. The shift key will
change to in ABC mode. All following letters will
be uppercase until you touch the shift key again.
Symbol/Numeric Mode
Use Symbol/Numeric Mode to add numbers, symbols, or
emoticons.
123
1. Touch at the bottom of the screen. The numeric
Sym
keyboard displays.
2. Touch the desired number, symbol, or emoticon
character.
32
will change to and
3. Touch the 1/3 button to access additional symbols.
4. Touch to return to Abc mode.
ABC

Predictive Text

By using the Predictive Text option, you can have next letter
prediction and regional error correction, which compensates
for pressing the wrong keys on the QWERTY keyboard.
Predictive text is turned on by default.
1. Press and hold
2. Touch the ON/OFF slider, located to the right of
the Predictive text field, to turn the feature on.
3. In the text portion of the message screen, begin typing
a word. A list of word options is displayed. Touch one of
the words to replace the word that has already been
typed or scroll the line of words to the left for more
word choices.
4. Continue typing your message. Touch
message or press
information, refer to "Create and Send Messages" on
page 80.
on the keyboard, then touch
to send the
for more options. For more
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