Blackberry 9810 manual Switch typing input methods when youre typing, Type text using multi-tap

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Switch typing input methods when you're typing

Before you begin: To perform this task, you must be using your BlackBerry smartphone in portrait view with the touch screen keyboard.

You can switch between the full keyboard and the reduced keyboard, which you can use with either the SureType input method or the multi-tap input method.

1.If necessary, while you're typing, press the key > Enable Reduced Keyboard.

2.Press the key > Enable <typing input method>.

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Type text using SureType technology

Before you begin: To perform this task, you must be using your BlackBerry smartphone in portrait view with the touch screen keyboard while using the reduced keyboard with the SureType input method turned on.

If you're using the SureType input method, even though most keys have more than one letter, you only have to press the letter key for each letter in a word once. Your smartphone also displays a list of suggested words so that you don't have to type the entire word.

1.Press the letter key once for each letter in a word.

2.Do any of the following:

•To select a word from the list that appears when you type and start typing a new word, highlight the word. Press

the key on the keyboard.

•To select an item from the list that appears when you type and continue typing the same word, click the item.

•To change a letter in a word that you're typing, highlight the letter. Click the alternate letter that appears on the screen.

•To change a letter in a word after you finish typing the word, click the word. Highlight the letter. Click the alternate letter that appears on the screen.

For example, to type run, you would press the R key once, the U key once, and so on until run appears in

the list. You would then highlight run and press the key.

Type text using multi-tap

Before you begin: To perform this task, you must be using your BlackBerry smartphone in portrait view with the touch screen keyboard while using the reduced keyboard with the multi-tap input method turned on.

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