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Defining day and months in Talks dictionary U S A format

Adding the days of the week.
1. When at the main standby screen of your 3rd edition phone. This is the screen that has the Sa and the date on it. Press Talks Long SoftKey1.
2. Arrow to the dictionary tab of Talk.
3. Press options.
4. Arrow to Add New and press select.
5. Type in Sa and press down arrow to replacement text.
6. Type in Saturday and press down arrow to Application.
7. Press right arrow. This will change the Application from General to Standby.
8. Press softkey2.
9. Answer YES to save changes.
10 Do this for each day of the week.
11. Back out of your Talks settings using SoftKey2.

If it worked correctly; Your phone should now say Saturday and not Sa anymore.

The below instructions have been tuned to the USA/Canada format of
displaying the date. Another
words the
date is in MM/DD/YYYY. The below will allow you to have the date said as
February 27, 2010. with some
miner tweaking on your part it can also be make to work with DD/MM/YYYY.

1. You must be at the default StandBy screen with the service provider and
the date showing.
Example:
Rogers
Saturday 02/27/2010.

2. Press Talks followed by long SoftKey1to bring up the Talks settings.
3. Arrow to the dictionary Tab.
4. Press options.
5. Arrow to Add new entry and press select.
6. Press the number 0 to put a space on the screen.
7. type in the two digit month followed with a /. Example: 02/
8. So now you should have a space followed by the two digit month then a /.
9. Press down arrow.
10. Now type in the name of the month followed by a space.
11. Press down arrow.
12. Press Right arrow to just assign this to the StandBy screen.
13. Press down arrow.
14. Press right arrow to change this option to Match whole words to NO.
15. Press SoftKey2.
16. Answer YES to do you want to save changes.
Repeat steps 4 through 16 for each month.
Now for the rest of it.
17. Press options after you have added and saved the last month.
18. Type a / followed by 201. Example: /201
19. Press down arrow.
20 Enter a space followed by 201. Example ignore the quotes: " 201"
21 Press down arrow.
22. Press right arrow to assign this just to the Telephone program.
23. Press down arrow.
24. Press right arrow to match whole words NO.
25. Press SoftKey2.
26 Answer YES to save entry.

27. Press SoftKey2 to exit the Talks settings.
Note:
Regarding the 201
When using the U S A format where the date is in MM/DD/YYYY This insures that Talks knows what is the year and allows you to then replace the / between the day and year with a space. You only need three of the digits and not the full 4 digits being you are then telling Talks to replace the slash with a space and filling back in the 201. This away the date format will work for 10 years in this case or up until the year 2019 before you would need to change it again. This also insures that talks can tell the difference between the slash before the year and the one before the day.
This also insures that you do not need to worry about what Talks processes first as far as the dictionary. At least these are the things I thought about when I came up with this way back in late 2006 when Talks came out with the dictionary to Talks on the old 2nd Edition phones.

In the UK format where the date is in DD/MM/YYYY you do not need to worry about the year at all beings the slash on either side of the months will take care of it for you.