Top 10 Blackberry Tips. I just love my Blackberry and here are really cool tips. Check out #18, #19 and #20 particularly.

  1. Hold the ALT key while you roll the trackwheel to scroll horizontally in any field where you can enter or view text.
  2. Hold the ALT key while you roll the trackwheel to scroll through a field to view options.
  3. Hold the SHIFT key while you roll the trackwheel to select multiple items in a list.
  4. Type the first letter of an item in an options list or menu to jump directly to that item.
  5. Type the first letters of a name or the initials separated by a space to find a contact in the Address Book screen.
  6. To cut and paste text, hold the ALT key and click the trackwheel, then roll the trackwheel to highlight text. Click and scroll to Cut Selection or Copy Selection. To paste the selected text, place the cursor in an editable field and click. Scroll to Paste Selection and click.
  7. Press and hold a letter to capitalize it (with Key Rate enabled).
  8. Press the SPACE key twice to insert a period and capitalize the next letter.
  9. Press the SPACE key to insert the “@” and “.” characters in an Email field.
  10. Press and hold a letter key and roll the trackwheel to scroll through international characters, equation symbols and other marks.
  11. Press ALT + SPACE to open the Select Symbol screen. Press the associated letter below the symbol that you want to insert into the text.
  12. Press ENTER to page down in an open message.
  13. Press ALT+ENTER to page up in an open message.
  14. Press T to go to the top and B to go to the bottom message, task, memo, or appointment in the list.
  15. Press T to go to “Today” in the Calendar screen.
  16. Press G to go to a specific date in Calendar the screen.
  17. Press C to create a new message, task, or appointment in the Messages, Saved Messages, Calendar, and Tasks functions.
  18. Press ALT+O to view only the sent messages in the Messages screen.
  19. Press ALT+I to view only the received messages in the Messages screen.
  20. In the Home screen, hold the ALT key and click the trackwheel to select an icon. Roll the trackwheel to move the icon to another position and click the trackwheel to “drop” it into the new position.

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