Blackberry WIRELESS HANDHELDTM 857 - Manual (Page 76)

Installation and User’s Guide
Composing and sending messages — Summary and tips 76
5. You return to your message in the To: screen and the symbol
has been inserted.
Summary and tips
In this chapter, you learned more about composing and sending
email. Not only have you learned about sending methods, but you
have also been introduced to the time-saving features such as
automatic formatting and AutoText. In the next chapter you’ll learn
more about receiving and reading messages.
Tip You can also insert international characters and characters
with accents into your messages. When composing a
message or entering text, press and hold a letter key while
rolling the trackwheel to scroll through international
characters and characters with accents. When the desired
character appears, release the letter key.
Composing and sending messages - Tips
• Press C to create a new message while in the Messages screen.
• Press ALT and roll the trackwheel to scroll horizontally in any field
where you can enter or view text.
• Press SPACE to insert the “@” and “.” characters in an Email field.
• Press SPACE twice to insert a period while composing a message (the
letter following the period will automatically be capitalized.)
• Type the first letters of the name or the initials separated by a space to
find a specific contact in the To field.
• Press ALT + CAP ( RIGHT SHIFT ) to turn on caps lock mode (press
SHIFT again to turn it off).
• Press ALT + NUM ( LEFT SHIFT ) to turn on num lock mode (press SHIFT
again to turn it off).
• Press and hold a letter to capitalize it (only works with Key Rate
enabled).