BlackBerry Tips and Tricks!
January 30, 2008 Comments
I just read this article on CIO.com about the best BlackBerry shortcuts. It’s a pretty big list, 39 total. Here are the 20 that I found most useful and I hope you find them useful as well:
Typing Shortcuts
- To capitalize a letter with one click, hold down the letter key.
- To insert a period, click the Space key twice.
- Turn CAP Lock on by pressing the ALT key followed by the right Shift key. Turn it off by pressing either Shift key.
- Turn Number Lock on by pressing the ALT key followed by the left Shift key. Turn it off by pressing either Shift key.
- Type an accented letter or special character by holding the corresponding letter and scrolling left or right with the trackball.
Messaging Shortcuts
- 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.
- Within inbox, access the complete list of messages sent by hitting the ALT key followed by the O key.
- Within inbox, access the complete list of messages received by hitting the ALT key followed by the I key.
- Within inbox, access the complete list of SMS text messages received by hitting the ALT key followed by the S key.
- Within inbox, access phone log by hitting the ALT key followed by the P key.
- Within inbox, access voicemail log by hitting the ALT key followed by the V key.
- When reading a message, press N to go to the next message, press P to go to the previous message.
- Within inbox or when reading a message, press T to go to the top of the page, B to go to the bottom of the page, Space key to go to the next page, Shift + Space to go to the previous page.
BlackBerry Browser Shortcuts
- Bring up the Enter Web Address field from any Web page by pressing the G key.
- Insert a period in Web address by clicking the Space key.
- Add an item to bookmarks list by clicking the A key.
- Bring up your bookmark list by clicking the K key.
- Refresh a Web page by clicking the R key.
- Open browser options with the O key.
BlackBerry Acting Up
- If your BlackBerry slows down, starts malfunctioning or freezing, always try removing the battery and SIM card–if the device has one–and waiting a few seconds before reinserting it.
I should probably add this list to our corporate wiki tomorrow :).