VTech A700 - Manual (Page 21)

• Send to a number entered on the keypad - enter
the full number (including area code) of your
recipient.
8 If you chose Save, the message will be stored ready
to be sent at another time - access Drafts to send the
message.
If you chose Send, the message will be sent to your
network, where attempts will be made to deliver it to
your recipient. The ‘Message Sent’ response means
that your network service centre has received it – it
does not guarantee that your message has been
successfully delivered to your recipient.
Note: If your message is not sent, you will be offered
Retry. If this fails, check that your Message Centre
Number is correct. See section “Text message setting”
and set correct message centre number using Service
centre sub menu.
To enter text:
1 Press the keypad button that shows the required
letter - the first of the letters, printed on the button,
will be displayed (other character choices for that
button are also shown on the display).
2 If the first letter is not the one required, press the
same button repeatedly until the required letter is
displayed – you may need to practice this technique
as the letter is selected one second after the button
was last pressed (e to delete a mistake).
3 Repeat the above process for each letter to build
each word, with the aid of the following special
features:
• Spaces -
1 to insert a space,
• Move cursor - Click
e to move the cursor back/
forward through the text, hold
e to go to the start
or end,
• Case shift - Press
* before a required button to
shift between upper and lower case (the arrow in
the lower left corner of the display shows the case
setting - down for lower case, up for upper case).
The initial letter is automatically capitalized,
• Shift/number lock – Press and hold
* to change
between normal case (outline arrow in lower left
corner of the display), upper case shift lock (solid
arrow) and number lock (1 in a box) for entering a
series of numbers,
• Delete - Click
a to delete a character, hold a to
delete the whole message,
• International characters - Numbers and Interna-
tional characters appear after the standard characters
shown on each button,
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