Formatting Your Messages - Blackberry 6720 User Manual

Sending and reading email and PIN messages

Formatting your messages

Your handheld has automatic formatting capabilities that can reduce your typing
time. It also has an AutoText feature that automatically replaces certain text that
you type with preprogrammed text.
Automatic capitalization
When you compose a message, you do not have to press
your handheld has two methods of capitalizing letters.
• When you type, the first letter that you type is capitalized automatically and
every letter that follows a period is also capitalized. Your handheld recognizes
the beginning of a new sentence and capitalizes the letter for you.
• If you want to capitalize any other letter, press and hold that letter until it is
capitalized. For this feature to work, you must set the Key Rate option on the
Screen/Keyboard screen of the Options application to either Slow or Fast.
Automatic punctuation
You can insert a period automatically at the end of a sentence or word by pressing
twice. The next letter that you type is capitalized.
SPACE
To insert a lowercase letter after a period, press
again. The letter appears in lowercase.
Email and number fields
You can type an email address in an Email field without pressing
type an email address, instead of pressing
. When you press
SPACE
You can type numbers in the Work, Home, Mobile, Fax, PIN, and Pager fields
without pressing
To type a number in any of these fields, press the associated character key. For
example, to display the number 4, press S. You can do this for all numbers, for
parentheses, and for the -, +, x, * and . characters.
Note: You can only type numbers and hexadecimal characters in the PIN field.
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again, a period is inserted.
SPACE
.
ALT
SHIFT
and type the letter
BACKSPACE
to insert the at sign (@), press
+
ALT L
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to capitalize letters;
. When you
ALT