[access-uk] Re: Typing capital letters on an E61

  • From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:59:57 +0100

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... Bottom right.
| >>>>> Peter Logue
| >>>>>
| >>>>>
| >>>>>
| >>>>>
| >>>>> Skype contact:
| >>>>> clydeview2008
| >>>>>
| >>>>> -----Original Message-----
| >>>>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
| >>>>> Behalf Of Sunil
| >>>>> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:23 PM
| >>>>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >>>>> Subject: [access-uk] Typing capital letters on an E61
| >>>>>
| >>>>> Hi, which key do I need to hold down on an E61 to type a capital
| >>>>> letter?...Thanks a lot
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