User's Manual

3. Tap and hold a letter .
If the key already has an assigned keyboard shortcut, you can change the shortcut without first deleting the existing
shortcut.
4. To change an existing shortcut, tap Edit A Shortcut.
5. Do one of the following:
• To open an application using the keyboard shortcut, tap App Launch Shortcut.
• To compose a message using the keyboard shortcut, tap Quick Compose Shortcut.
• To add another type of action to the keyboard shortcut, such as composing a new message, creating a new note
or task, locking your device, or switch notification modes, tap
Other Shortcut.
Typing on the BlackBerry Keyboard
The BlackBerry Keyboard consists of a three-row physical keyboard, and one or more rows of touch screen keys above the
keyboard. The touch screen keys that appear above the keyboard are dynamic and change depending on the application
or mode you are in. For example, the basic row of touch screen keys includes The Shift icon , basic punctuation (such as
comma, period, exclamation mark, question mark, colon, and semi-colon), and
@123. However, if you are in a browser, the
touch screen keys include The Shift icon , underscore, hyphen, colon, forward slash, question mark, period, and @123.
In certain apps, there may be more than one row of touch screen characters. For example, when you dial a phone number,
enter a contact's PIN number, or use the symbol picker to add special characters to a message.
Type an accented character
The list of available accents depends on the current input language. If you set multiple input languages, the accents for the
same language family that can be predicted together appear for a letter. For example, the alphabets of Latin-based
languages are similar, so you get accent options for all your chosen Latin-based input languages. If you have set more than
one language with a Latin-based alphabet, you see accent options for all Latin-based languages that you have set.
1. On the BlackBerry Keyboard, press and hold the letter that you want to add the accent to.
2. When accented characters appear in the row above the BlackBerry Keyboard, do one of the following:
• On the keyboard, gently tap the letter to cycle through the available accent options for that letter.
• On the screen, tap the accent option that you want to choose.
Type a symbol or number
1.
On the keyboard, swipe down to open the symbol picker.
Image of finger swiping down on the keyboard to open the symbol picker
When the symbol picker opens, the keyboard characters map to the symbols. Swipe down again to scroll to the next
page of the symbol picker.
2. Tap the corresponding key to use the mapped symbol on the screen.
If you tap the symbol on the screen, mapped mode is cancelled.
User Guide Settings
159