Tips and Tricks for the BlackBerry 7200 and BlackBerry 7700 Series

Learn all the tips and tricks for your BlackBerry® 7200 Series or BlackBerry® 7700 Series smartphone. Select an application or topic below to get started.

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

Home Screen Tips

• Move icon on Home screen

• Select the icon, Press Alt and click Trackwheel, Click Move Application. Position icon, Click Trackwheel again to set icon

• Jump directly to an icon

• Type first letter of icon

• Vertically scroll between icons

• Hold Alt+roll Trackwheel

Phone Tips

• Open the Phone screen

• Press Phone button or Spacebar

• Change volume during call

• Roll Trackwheel

• Insert an extension

• Press Alt+X+Ext.#

• Dial the last number

• Press Spacebar+Enter

• Assign speed dial to a letter

• Hold letter key, then type number

• Access your voice mail

• Hold 1

• End a call

• Press the Escape button

• Type letters in a phone number

• Hold Alt and type letters

• Mute call

• Press the Phone button

• To turn mute off

• Press the Phone button again

Browser

• Toggle full-screen mode/normal mode

• Press U

• Add a bookmark

• Press A

• Open bookmarks

• Press K

• Refresh a web page

• Press R

• Close a web page

• Press Escape

• Save a web page to Messages screen

• Press S

• Return to Home Page

• Press H

• View, copy or send the address for a link

• Press L

• Move a page down

• Press Spacebar

• Move a page up

• Press Shift+Spacebar

• Move to the top of the web page

• Press T

• Move to the bottom of the web page

• Press B

• Stop a web page from loading

• Press Escape button

• Open browser options

• Press O

Typing

• Capitalize a letter

• Hold letter key

• Insert a period

• Press Spacebar twice

• Type alternate character

• Hold Alt+character key

• Type a symbol

• Press Symbol+click symbol

• Type accented/special character

• Hold key+roll Trackwheel

• Turn on CAP-Lock

• Alt+Right Shift (CAP)

• Turn on NUM-Lock

• Right Shift+Alt

• Turn off NUM/CAP-Lock

• Press Right Shift key

• Select text by character

• Hold Shift+roll Trackwheel

• Select whole lines

• Press Shift once+roll Trackwheel

• Insert “@” into an email field

• Press Spacebar

Messages

• Jump to bottom of Messages screen

• Press B

• Jump to top of Messages screen

• Press T

• Mark a message opened/unopened

• Press Alt+U

• Move down a page in a message

• Press Enter

• Move up a page in a message

• Press Alt+Enter

• Reply to a message

• Press R

• Forward a message

• Press F

• Reply-to-all

• Press L

• View SMS messages

• Press Alt+S

• View phone log

• Press Alt+P

• View voice mail messages

• Press Alt+V

Calculator

• Display calculation results

• Press Enter

• Clear screen

• Press Y

• Clear last entry

• Press T

• Add

• Press I

• Subtract

• Press U

• Multiply

• Press A

• Divide

• Press G

• Metric conversions

• Click on Menu, select from list

Navigating Screens

• Select multiple items/icons

• Hold down Shift+roll Trackwheel

• Jump to item in list

• Press first letter of item

• Move cursor to bottom of page

• Press Spacebar

• Move cursor to top of page

• Press CAP+Spacebar

Organizer/Calendar

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

• Find a contact in address book

• Type contact’s name or initials
  (separated by a space)

• Jump to next day in calendar

• Press Spacebar

• Jump to previous day in calendar

• Press Shift+Spacebar

• To change to Week format

• Press W

• To change to Month format

• Press M

• Move to current date

• Press T

• Move to specific date

• Press G

• To create an appointment

• Press C

General Tips

• Delete prior messages

• Highlight date, click Trackwheel
  +select Delete Prior in Message list

• Change ‘signal strength’ from numbers to bars

• Hold Alt+type NMLL

• Open ‘Help Me!’

• Alt+CAP+H. This screen lists the version, application version, PIN, IMEI, uptime, signal strength, battery level, file free and file total.

• Reboot

• Alt+CAP+Backspace

• Save battery

• Turn off the wireless radio
  in fringe or no-coverage areas

Attachments

• Move to specific cell

• Press G

• Display the contents of specific cell

• Press Spacebar

• Move to bottom

• Press B

• Move to top

• Press T

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