Nokia 8800 User Guide - Page 34

4. Write text You can enter text, for example, when writing messages, using traditional or predictive text input. When using 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, 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 to a language other than that selected in Phone language, page 77, select Options > Writing language. Predictive text input is only available for the languages on the list. To set the predictive text input option, select Options > Dictionary on, or to set traditional text input option select Options > Dictionary off. ■ Predictive text input Predictive text input allows you to write text quickly using the phone keypad and a built-in dictionary. Copyright © 2005 Nokia. All rights reserved. 34