10 BlackBerry Shortcuts
Get to know your BlackBerry even better.
You've probably been with your BlackBerry so long it sometimes feels like an extension of your own body. But how well do you really understand it. Are you maximizing all that it offers to simplify your life? Here are 10 shortcuts you'll want to know.
1. Click the space bar instead of the @ symbol and the dot when typing e-mail addresses.
2. Click the space bar twice at the end of each sentence. It adds a period and a space and capitalizes the next word.
3. Hold down a letter to capitalize it.
4. Hold down a letter and roll the track ball for special characters like ®, @, ø, å, ©.
5. Click the space bar to scroll down a screen in long e-mails. Click ALT and space bar to move up.
6. To search for a word in e-mail, open the message and click s.
7. To scroll to the bottom of your e-mail inbox, click "b". To scroll to the top of your inbox, click "t".
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8. Make shortcuts for text you type often. Open a new e-mail, click the menu key (left of the track ball) and select "Edit Auto Text". Click the menu key again and select "New". Add your contact info, long business acronyms or whole paragraph responses to answer your most FAQs.
9. To copy and paste, click the shift key and use the track ball to highlight text. Press the track ball to select "Copy" and move that highlighted text to where you want it. Press the track ball again and select "Paste".
10. To add a contact to your address book from an e-mail: open the e-mail, click the menu key and select "Add to Address Book".
Make shortcuts for text you type often. Open a new e-mail, click the menu key (left of the track ball) and select "Edit Auto Text". Click the menu key again and select "New". Add your contact info, long business acronyms or whole paragraph responses to answer your most FAQs.
