Thank you very much flor, that was a good starter tutorial and have made me feel positive about starting. As you say it is only with practice. Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:18 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Sending Text Messages > sHi Eleanor, > > First, my condolences with you on your dog pedrro's passing. > > As you have observed, you often need to press a key more than once, on > occasion as many as 4 times, to get the desired letter. Pressing the 1 > key, for example, from 1 to 4 times gives comma, full stop, question mark, > and exclamation mark. The alphabet: > > number 2 once for a, twice for b, three times for c. > Number 3, d e f. > Number 4, g h i. > Number 5, j k l. > Number 6, m n o. > Number 7, p q r s. (You hit 7 four times to get s). > Number 8, t u v. > Number 9, w x y z. > > Other characters may be got from the Add Symbols dialogue, or whatever it > may be called on your phone, as well as by pressing some of tthe above keys > five, six, or even seven times. It may be helpful to have Talks echo each > keystroke as you type, for the moment. Talks will usually cycle through - > so that if you press 7 four times, you will probably hear, "7, q, r, s". > You may get more (and better) feedback on these things from more experienced > texters than me. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:53 PM > Subject: [vip_students] Sending Text Messages > > > Has anyone worked out an effecient way of doing this, say using the talks on > vodafone. I am looking for a quick fix, have never sent text messages but > would like to give it a go. I know that one has to hit keys a certain > number of times to get each diffeent letter but maybe someone has made out a > list like how many times to hit for a b c etc rather than having to think > and work it out at each letter as one goes along, like I think for e one has > to hit the 2 twice. > > Eleanor > > >