Not karen but the default is lower case with initial caps at the beginning of a sentence after a full stop. You could set talks to say upper case and then if you are accidentally in upper case you will be alerted to this and would then come out of it. To set the Talks to say upper and lower case when you are writing, then press the Talks key and the number 2 on the keypad quickly. It will either say speak upper case on or speak upper case off. I always do this so I dont accidentally write a block of upper case. Other than that it won't bother you and it won't keep saying lower case, just the setting has been set. If in the body of a text you wanted to put upper case, like say LTD then you hit the hash key once and you will hear upper case then you would hit the key for L after that given that you would then want the other two letters t and d in upper case you would press the hash key once again. This then turns all you are writing into upper case. To revert back to lower case just hit the hash key once. As karen says switching between predictive and plain text involves the hash key also but this is where the hash key is hit twice in succession and rapidly. ----- Original Message ----- From: yvonne oliver To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 3:04 PM Subject: [talks-uk] Re: predictive text hello karen thank you for that it worked now i pose the next part of this when i create a new message the to box allows and announces lower case the body of the text announces upper case if i press the hash key it says lower case but i want it to stay errantly in lower case how do i set this so that it always says lower case when writing the text Yvonne ----- Original Message ----- From: Karen Burgess To: talks-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:21 PM Subject: [talks-uk] Re: predictive text hi yvonne press the hash key until you hear it say upper case or lower case, if you hear dictionary upper case or lower case that means predictive texting is active.. kaz From: yvonne oliver Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:25 PM To: talks uk Subject: [talks-uk] predictive text hi my n 86 has predictive text turned on it was probably done by the previous owner i want to turn it off but i can find no mention of it in the menu structures can anyone tell me where i will find it to be able to turn it off? and also is there a short cut command to go straight to predictive and turn it on or off thank you Yvonne ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3094 - Release Date: 08/25/10 19:34:00