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User Guide
Show or hide the touch screen keyboard
Do any of the following:
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To show the keyboard, close the slider and tap any text entry field.
• To hide the keyboard, tap the screen outside of a text entry field. If there is nowhere to tap on the screen, tap
Typing on the BlackBerry Keyboard
Learn how to use accented and uppercase letters, symbols, and numbers on your keyboards.
Type an uppercase character
To type an uppercase character, do one of the following:
• On the touch screen keyboard or slider keyboard, press
•
Press and hold the letter.
To turn on CAP lock, press and hold
Type numbers and symbols
1.
On the touch screen keyboard or slider keyboard, swipe down to open the number and symbol picker. Swipe down
again to scroll to the next page of numbers and symbols.
2.
Tap a number or symbol on the screen, or press the key on the slider keyboard that corresponds to the symbol that
you want.
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 appear together for a letter. For example, 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.
On the touch screen keyboard or the slider keyboard, press and hold the letter that you want to add the accent to, and then
do one of the following:
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When accented characters appear on the screen above the slider keyboard, tap the character that you want to insert.
•
When accented characters appear above the letter on the touch screen keyboard, slide your finger onto the accented
character that you want to insert, and then lift your finger.
, and then tap a letter.
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