Blackberry dummies 2 Manual page 42

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Part I: Meet and Greet Your BlackBerry Storm
Figure 2-3:
Did you
want to type
hi or gi?
These tips can speed up your SureType learning curve:
✓ Always finish typing a word before correcting it. This way, SureType
learns what you want to type next time.
✓ If SureType correctly gets the word you're typing (on the first try), use
the space key to move on.
✓ Take advantage of Custom Dictionary, which is a list of words that you
define. More on this later in this section.
✓ Type! Type! Type! Because SureType learns how you type, the more
you use it, the faster it adapts.
Multitap
Besides using SureType, you can type in another mode while BlackBerry is
upright: multitap. The best way to explain multitap is by example. Say you
want to type an h character on the virtual SureType keyboard. You search
out the h on your keyboard but notice the key reads GH. What's a person to
do? Do you really want to go through life writing GHello for Hello?
Your problem has a perfectly easy solution. To get the letter h, which is the
second letter on the key, tap the key twice — hence, the term multitap. (To get
the letter g, you would tap the GH key once.)