Blackberry 850 User Manual page 35

Composing and sending messages — Automatic formatting
period becomes capitalized too. The handheld recognizes the
beginning of a new sentence and does the work for you.
• If you want any other characters to be capitalized, press and
hold the character key until it becomes capitalized. You must
have the Key Rate (Options>Screen/Keyboard) option set to
either Slow or Fast for this feature to work.
Auto punctuation
You can insert a period automatically at the end of a sentence or
word by pressing the
be capitalized.
Email fields
You can type an email address in an Email field without pressing
the key. Begin typing an email address; instead of pressing
ALT
to insert the '@' sign, simply press the
L
you press the
SPACE
To insert a blank space into an Email field, press
then press
SPACE
time you press the
Number fields
You can type numbers in the PIN, Work, Home, Mobile, Fax, and
Pager fields without pressing the
To type a number in one of these fields, simply press the associated
character key. For example, to display the number '4', press the 'R'
key. You can do this for all of the numeric characters and the '-', '+',
'x' and '.' characters.
Note To enter hexadecimal characters (a, b, c, d, e, and f) in a
number field, you must press the
associated letter. For example, to enter an 'e' in the PIN
field, press and hold the
key twice. The next letter you type will
SPACE
key again, a '.' character will be inserted.
again. A blank space appears in the field. The next
key, the '@' sign appears.
SPACE
key to do so. When
SPACE
key.
ALT
key while pressing the
ALT
key while pressing the
ALT
+
ALT
and
BACKSPACE
key.
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