Learn all the tips and tricks for your BlackBerry® 7100 Series smartphone. Select an application or topic below to get started.

• Home Screen Tips
• Phone Tips
• Browser
• Typing
• Messages
• Navigating Screens
• Organizer/Calendar
• General Tips
• Attachments

Home Screen Tips

• Return to home screen from any other screen

• Press End

• Lock the keyboard

• Hold (*) or click Keyboard Lock

• Unlock the keyboard

• Press Press (*) + Send or doubleclick Trackwheel

• Switch between Default and Vibrate notification profiles

• Hold #

• Switch to another application

• Hold Alt
  Press Escape
  Continue to hold Alt
  Select application
  Release Alt to switch
  to that application

Phone Tips

• Open phone

• Press Send

• End call

• Press End

• Call selected name or phone number

• Press Send

• Call a speed dial number

• Hold assigned number key

• Type an extension

• Press ZX
  Type extension number

• Call your voice mail access number

• Hold 1

• Type a letter in a number field

• Hold Alt and press letter key
  once for the first letter and
  twice for the second letter

• Turn mute on/off during call

• Press Exclamation point (!) key

• Switch between the speaker and earpiece during call

• Press Period (.) key

• Change volume during call

• Roll Trackwheel

Browser

• Open browser and display list of bookmarks made available by service provider

• Press Convenience key

• Edit web address in Go To dialog box

• Hold Alt and roll Trackwheel
  Select address
  Edit text
  Click Trackwheel

• Move down a page

• Press 9

• Move up a page

• Press 3

• Move between full-screen mode and normal mode

• Press Exclamation point (!) key

Typing

• To type words quickly using SureType™

• Press keys one time for one letter
  Type entire word before
  attempting to make a correction

• Scroll across list that appears when you type

• Press Next or roll Trackwheel

• Choose selected item in list that appears when you type

• Press Enter or click Trackwheel

• Insert a period

• Press Space twice
  Next letter is capitalized

• Capitalize a letter

• Hold the letter key until
  capitalized letter appears

• Type alternate character on a key

• Press Alt and press the character key

• Type a symbol

• Press Alt + Symbol
  Press Symbol again
  to view more symbols
  Type letter shown below symbol

• Type an accent or special character

• Hold letter key and roll Trackwheel
  Click selected character

• To insert "@" and periods in an email field

• Press Space

• Turn on NUM lock

• Press Shift + Alt

• Turn off NUM lock

• Press Alt

• Switch between SureType and multi-tap input methods

• Hold (*)

Messages

• Open the selected message

• Press Enter

• Compose message from messages list

• Press Comma (,) key

• Reply to message

• Press Exclamation point (!) key

• Forward message

• Press Period (.) key

• Reply to all

• Press Question Mark (?) key

• View received messages

• Press Alt + 3

• View SMS messages

• Press Alt + Question Mark (?) key

• View walkie-talkie logs (BlackBerry 7100i Only)

• Press Alt + D

• View MMS messages

• Press Alt + 9

• View phone call logs

• Press Alt + Period (.) key

• View voice mail messages

• Press Alt + 7

Navigating Screens

• Move cursor

• Roll Trackwheel

• Exit a screen or dialog box

• Press Escape

• Click an icon or menu item

• Roll Trackwheel to select item
  Click Trackwheel

• Select multiple items or characters

• Hold Shift and roll Trackwheel

• Move to top of screen

• Press 1

• Move to bottom of screen

• Press 7

Organizer/Calendar

NOTE: For these tips to work in Day view,
in the calendar options, set Enable Quick Entry field to No

• Create an appointment

• Press Period (.) key

• Move to next day, week or month

• Press 6

• Move to previous day, week or month

• Press 4

• Move cursor horizontally in Week view

• Hold Alt and roll Trackwheel

• Move cursor vertically in Month view

• Hold Alt and roll Trackwheel

General Tips

• Increase the brightness of backlight

• Press power button

• Reboot

• Remove battery

• Save battery

• Turn off BlackBerry handset
  in fringe or no-coverage areas

Attachments

• Pan horizontally across an image

• Hold Alt key and roll Trackwheel

• Zoom in on an image

• Press 3. To continue zooming,
  hold Shift and roll Trackwheel

• Zoom out of an image

• Press 9. To continue zooming,
  hold Shift and roll Trackwheel

• Rotate an image

• Press Period (.) key

To learn more about making the most of your BlackBerry smartphone, view the BlackBerry 101 interactive demo.