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4. Write text
To enter text (for example, when writing messages), use traditional or predictive text input. To use traditional 
text input, press a number key, 1 to 9, repeatedly until the desired character appears. In predictive text input 
you can enter a letter with a single keypress.
When you write text,  or   appears at the top left of the display, indicating predictive text input, and 
 appears, indicating traditional text input.  ,  , or   appears next to the text input indicator, 
indicating the character case. To change the character case, press #.   indicates number mode. To change 
from the letter to number mode, press and hold #, and select Number mode.
■ Settings
To set the writing language while writing text, select Options > Writing language.
When writing text, select Options > Prediction .
To set predictive text input on or revert to traditional text input, select Prediction > On or Off.
Tip: To quickly set predictive text input on or off when writing text, press # twice, or select and hold 
Options.
■ Predictive text input
Predictive text input allows you to write text quickly using the phone keypad and a built-in dictionary.
1. To start writing a word, use the 2 to 9 keys. Press each key only once for one letter. The phone displays * or 
the letter if it separately has a meaning as a word. The entered letters are displayed underlined.
If you select Word suggestions as prediction type, the phone starts to predict the word you are writing. After 
you enter a few letters, and if these entered letters are not a word, the phone tries to predict longer words. 
Only the entered letters are displayed underlined.