To find out if you have any texts, press Control+Shift+F9. You can also press Control+WindowsKey+F9 to check texts while you are working in another application, such as reading an e-mail message or displaying a web page.

The display shows "Checking for SMS texts". If there are none available, a message will come up indicating that you have no texts at this time, press Escape or ENTER to carry on with what you were doing.

If there are texts to display, you are taken into Communications Mode as when conducting a text-to-text telephone call, and the messages are appended to whatever text is already present.

The messages are introduced by "Texts", then each individual message is introduced by a sequence number in braces ("{}"). The word "From" and the source of the message follow the message number. The source of the message is generally the text number of the person or organisation sending the message, but can be a textual description, or both. The message status, whether it has been read or is a new unread message, is then shown in brackets, followed by the date the message was sent. The message itself is then displayed.

When you have read all your texts, it is advisable to delete them by pressing the Delete key. You can save the messages in a file in the library if you need to keep information by pressing WindowsKey+F9 then typing in a filename, the software currently does not automatically keep copies of deleted messages. You should not leave messages undeleted indefinitely once you have read them because your mobile device may only be able to hold about 20, and if it fills up, you will not receive anymore until you delete the current ones. Leaving read messages undeleted also means you will have to read passed them each time you check for new texts. When you press the Delete key to delete texts, a message is displayed while the command is being processed, then you are returned to the directory. Only read messages are deleted, so new messages received while the current ones are being displayed will not be lost.

The telephone number of the message sender is often preceded by a plus sign ("+"+. This is just the international form of the number, "+44" is the same as "0".

Consecutive texts from the same number are joined into one text. This is usually the correct behaviour because WintextCom assumes that

consecutive texts are the individual parts of a long message. It is possible, however, that a separate text may be joined to a previous one from the same number. A future release of the software will handle long texts properly and eliminate the possibility of this error.

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Reading Texts