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4. Write text
You can enter text (for example, when writing messages) using traditional or
predictive text input. To use traditional text input, press a number key, 1 to 9,
repeatedly until the desired character appears. In predictive text input you can
enter a letter with a single keypress.
When you write text, or appears at the top left of the display, indicating
predictive text input, and appears, indicating traditional text input. ,
, or appears next to the text input indicator, indicating the character
case. To change the character case, press #. indicates number mode. To
change from the letter to number mode, press and hold #, and select Number
mode.
■ Settings
To set the writing language while writing text, select Options > Writing language.
When writing text, select Options > Prediction settings.
To set predictive text input on or revert to traditional text input, select
Prediction > On or Off.
To select the prediction type, select Prediction type > Normal or Word
suggestions. If you select Normal, indicated with , the phone predicts the
word on the basis of the characters you entered. If you select Word suggestions,
indicated with , the phone predicts and completes the word before you enter
all the characters.