User manual
Table Of Contents
- Getting started
- New features and enhancements
- Getting to know your tablet
- Using the touch screen
- Insert a micro SIM card
- Personalizing your home screen
- View your notifications
- Status bar icons
- Switch to a new tablet
- Setting up your tablet
- About your BlackBerry ID
- About BlackBerry Balance
- Overview of tablet settings
- Supported audio, video, and picture file formats and codecs
- Messages
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Browser
- BlackBerry Bridge
- About BlackBerry Bridge
- New features
- Connect your tablet and smartphone using BlackBerry Bridge
- BlackBerry Bridge basics
- Remote control
- BlackBerry Bridge vs Tethering
- Do data charges apply?
- About synchronizing Wi-Fi and VPN profiles
- About using BlackBerry Bridge in your organization
- Troubleshooting: BlackBerry Bridge
- Connections
- Connect to a mobile network
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth technology
- Tether your tablet to a Bluetooth enabled device
- Share files between your computer and tablet using Wi-Fi
- Share files between your computer and tablet using a USB connection
- Turn on airplane mode
- Connect your tablet to an HDMI display
- Troubleshooting: HDMI connections
- Keyboard and typing
- Documents To Go
- Print To Go
- BlackBerry App World
- Camera
- Pictures
- Videos
- Music
- Music Store
- Battery and power
- Applications
- Clock
- Video chat
- Video Store
- Bing Maps
- BlackBerry News
- Security
- Podcasts
- Voice notes
- Legal notice
Keyboard and typing
Using the keyboard
Watch a video about typing on the touch screen: English
Show the keyboard Tap a text field or swipe in from the bottom-left frame onto the screen .
If you have a Bluetooth keyboard attached to your BlackBerry PlayBook, you must swipe in from
the bottom-left frame onto the screen to show the keyboard on the tablet.
Hide the keyboard Tap the Hide Keyboard icon on the lower-left corner of the keyboard, or tap outside the text edit
field.
Change the keyboard
type
On the status bar, tap > Keyboard > Keyboard type.
Typing tips
Capitalize a letter Tap the Shift key. Tap the letter.
Turn on CAP lock Touch and hold the Shift key. To turn off CAP lock, tap the Shift key again.
Type a symbol Tap the 123 sym key. If the symbol you're looking for isn't displayed, tap the More
Symbols key.
Type an accented or special
character
Touch and hold a letter key to display a list of accented versions of the letter and
special characters. Tap the accented or special character.
Type a number in a text field Tap the 123 sym key. Tap the number. To show the standard keys again, tap the ABC
key.
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