[vip_students] Re: Sending Text Messages

  • From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:31:38 +0100

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
>
>
>


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