Getting to Know Your Phone Using the Phone User Interface
Arcata 2203 17 User Guide
Using DTMF Keypad in Alpha-numeric Mode
When you are entering contact information or searching for a contact, you use the DTMF
keypad on your phone to enter letters (small or caps) or numbers. If you are entering
consecutive characters on the same key, wait 1 second between characters until the cursor on
the display starts blinking, and then enter the next character.
Use the alpha-numeric mode soft key to choose how characters are entered.
Each time you press the key it toggles through the modes shown in the table below.
2aB The first time you press the key the number is entered. Subsequent presses will enter the letters on
the key (small) and then the letters capitalized.
123 Enters the number on the keypad.
abc Small letters. The first press enters the first letter on the key and subsequent presses will enter other
letters on the key.
ABC CAPITAL LETTERS.