Good luck then Carol, once you're use to it, I think you'll find it much better than the long hand way. Something simple like "see u on Monday for coffee" is a drag in long hand, but is so much quicker with predictive text. Anybody not convince, try that sentence - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:42 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Typing capital letters on an E61 | Yes, Andy, I think it's just practice now. Thanks. | | -- | Carol | carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | On Friday, May 02, 2008 4:18 PM (UK time), Andy Collins at | andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said: | | > Carol - Soft key one is the key you press for options when in menus. | > | > Remember, if you are typing in a word long hand, because repeated | > presses of the star key didn't bring it up, it will not be added to | > the predicted text dictionary. To add it to the dictionary so it will | > be there next time, you have to do a double press of the 'talks' key, | > and arrow down to whatever it's called that allows you to edit the | > dictionary. | > | > HTH - | > | > Andy | > ----- Original Message ----- | > From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 3:48 PM | > Subject: [access-uk] Re: Typing capital letters on an E61 | > | > | >> Andy, | >> | >> Which key do you mean by "soft key 1"? I'm persevering with this | >> though still finding it a little fiddley when it comes to adding | >> words to the dictionary. | >> | >> -- | >> Carol | >> carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | >> | >> On Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:00 AM (UK time), Andy Collins at | >> andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said: | >> | >>> Hi Carol - | >>> | >>> Predictive text: Once you have this setting turned on, you can cycle | >>> between it being on and off by 2 quick presses of the hash key. When | >>> you have predictive turned on, just start writing your message, but | >>> only press each key once, so to write hello, it would be 4 3 5 5 6, | >>> and you can type as fast as you like, because your not cycling | >>> through the letters. If you have TALKS set to speak words,then it | >>> will say the word it thinks you want, and if it's selected the wrong | >>> word from it's dictionary, then [and you have to do this before | >>> putting a space after the word] press the star key to hear a | >>> different word, each press of the star key will bring up a different | >>> word, these words will only be made up of the number of letters you | >>> originally keyed in, and only words that can be made up from the | >>> letters attached to those keys on the key pad. When you hear the | >>> word you want, just press the zero for a space, and it will have | >>> been inserted, and you can carry on. If when pressing the star key | >>> brings you back to the first word in the list, and you haven't | >>> heard the one you wanted to write, then press soft key one, which | >>> will temporarily take the keypad out of predictive text, allowing | >>> you to type in the word in the usual long handed way; once you've | >>> done this, and before hitting zero for a space, press soft key one | >>> again, to accept the word, and put you back in predictive text mode. | >>> | >>> Writing this out, and no doubt reading it, sound like it's a lot of | >>> trouble, but it really isn't, and I find that pretty much most of | >>> the time, predictive text gives me the word I want, and only a | >>> couple of times in a text message, might I have to either cycle | >>> through a short list of words to get the one I want, or have to | >>> insert it the long hand way. You can still use punctuation in the | >>> usual way when in predictive text too, but this time, before you | >>> press the star key twice, you need to put a space after the word, | >>> doing this will still put the punctuation sign where you want it. | >>> Oh and yes, you can still insert numbers with predictive text | >>> turned on by pressing and holding the key for a second. | >>> | >>> HTH - | >>> | >>> Andy | >>> | >>> <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | >>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:50 AM | >>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Typing capital letters on an E61 | >>> | >>> | >>>> Yeah, whilst we're on that subject ... how do you switch to a | >>>> series of numbers in the middle of a text message and can anyone | >>>> explain to me again, please, about predictive text? I want to | >>>> have another go and see if I can master it this time! | >>>> | >>>> Thanks. | >>>> | >>>> -- | >>>> Carol | >>>> carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | >>>> | >>>> On Monday, April 28, 2008 10:40 PM (UK time), Peter Logue at | >>>> plsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said: | >>>> | >>>>> Hi Sunil, | >>>>> The Hash key... 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