Nokia MOBILE PHONE N86 - Manual (Page 94)

predictive text input for all editors in the device.
indicates that predictive text input is activated.
2 To write the desired word, press the keys 2-9. Press
each key once for each letter.
3 When you have finished writing the word, and it is
correct, scroll right to confirm it, or press 0 to add a
space.
If the word is not correct, press * repeatedly to view
the matching words in the dictionary.
If the ? character is displayed after the word, the word
you intended to write is not in the dictionary. To add
a word to the dictionary, select Spell , enter the word
(up to 32 letters) using traditional text input, and
select OK . The word is added to the dictionary. When
the dictionary is full, the new word replaces the oldest
added word.
Write the first part of a compound word; to confirm it,
scroll right. Write the second part of the compound word.
To complete the compound word, press 0 to add a space.
Tips on text input
To insert a number in the letter mode, press and hold the
desired number key.
To switch between the different character modes, press
#.
To delete a character, press C. To delete more than one
character, press and hold C.
The most common punctuation marks are available under
1. To scroll them through one by one, if you use traditional
text input, press 1 repeatedly. If you use predictive text
input, press 1, and then * repeatedly.
To open a list of special characters, press and hold *.
Tip: To select several special characters from the special
characters list, press 5 after each highlighted character.
Change the writing language
When you are writing text, you can change the writing
language. For example, if you are writing text using a non-
Latin alphabet and want to write Latin characters, such as
e-mail or web addresses, you may need to change the
writing language.
To change the writing language, select Options >
Writing language and a writing language that uses Latin
characters.
After changing the writing language, for example, if you
press 6 repeatedly to reach a specific character, changing
the writing language gives you access to characters in a
different order.
Edit text and lists
To copy and paste text, while pressing and holding #, scroll
left or right to highlight text. To copy the text to the
clipboard, while still holding #, select Copy . To insert the
text into a document, press and hold #, and select Paste .
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