Best BlackBerry Shortcuts: Aflac's Mobile Guru Shares Tips
Aflac's BlackBerry guru shares power tips and tricks for your RIM smartphone. Here's how to improve your typing, messaging, browsing, attachment handling and more.
Typing Shortcuts
1) To capitalize a letter with one click, hold down the letter key.
2) To insert a period, click the Space key twice.
3) Turn CAP Lock on by pressing the ALT key followed by the right Shift key. Turn it off by pressing either Shift key.
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4) Turn Number Lock on by pressing the ALT key followed by the left Shift key. Turn it off by pressing either Shift key.
5) Type an accented letter or special character by holding the corresponding letter and scrolling left or right with the trackball.
6) Insert the current date into a message or document by pressing the L key followed by the D key
and Space key.
7) Insert the current time into a message or document by pressing the L key followed by the T key and Space key.
Messaging (E-mail and SMS)
1) In e-mail inbox, press the S key to search for a sender or a word within a subject line, and any mail folder regardless of message was sent or received.
2) Within inbox, access the complete list of messages sent by hitting the ALT key followed by the O key.
3) Within inbox, access the complete list of messages received by hitting the ALT key followed by the I key.
4) Within inbox, access the complete list of SMS text messages received by hitting the ALT key followed by the S key.
5) Within inbox, access phone log by hitting the ALT key followed by the P key.
6) Within inbox, access voicemail log by hitting the ALT key followed by the V key.
7) To delete all messages sent or received before a specific date, highlight that date with the cursor, hit the BlackBerry Menu key, select Delete Prior and confirm selection.
8) To enable automatic spell checking of e-mail messages, click the Options icon on BlackBerry home screen. Then click Spell Check and select the Spell Check E-Mail Before Sending option.
9) To do a manual spell check, click the BlackBerry Menu key within a composed message and select Check Spelling.
10) When a message is being spell checked, suggested fixes to unrecognized words can be ignored by clicking the escape key.
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