User Guide

Typing

Typing

Typing basics

Highlight, cut, copy, or paste text

1.Press and hold the key and click the trackpad.

To highlight text character by character, on the trackpad, slide your finger left or right.

To highlight text line by line, on the trackpad, slide your finger up or down.

2.Press the key.

To cut the highlighted text, click Cut.

To copy the highlighted text, click Copy.

3.Place the cursor where you want to insert the cut or copied text.

4.Press the key > Paste.

Type a symbol

1.Press the Symbol key.

2.Press the letter key that appears below the symbol.

Type an accent or special character

Press and hold a letter key on the keyboard and, on the trackpad, slide your finger left or right until the accented or special character appears.

Clear text from a field

In a field that you typed text into, press the key > Clear Field.

Type text using the predictive input method

When you are typing text, perform any of the following actions:

To select the highlighted suggestion and start typing a new word, press the Enter key.

To select the highlighted suggestion and continue typing the same word, click the word.

To ignore the suggestions, keep typing.

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Blackberry 9100, 9105 manual Typing basics