Hi guys, thanks for your help but non of the above worked nor did I want to install another app when the phone already had the key board I wanted.
The problem is that the technical guys are just too technical, they don't know how to talk layman terms.
We're not all that well versed in the terminology that is not standard even between the tech guys.
As Dannydet above calls the keypad I wanted a dialer key pad, I call it Phone pad, or T9 predictive, some call it the old Nokia keypad.
God knows how many other names are given to it, but Samsung as on my S8 plus call it a 3x4 .
What chance do we mere mortals have.
I finally found a automated Youtube video of how to change the standard qwerty board, pad, keyboard, (how many more names are there) to the 3x4 that I wanted but it takes 9 separate presses of different menus to get it to change.
Just toooooooooo much jargon, tooooooooo much technical stuff and no one that knows how to talk laymans language.
Only had this phone for 36 hours, thats 34 hours I will never get back and it should only have taken an hour at most.