Typing

Typing basics

Highlight, cut, copy, or paste text

To perform this task, you must use the slide-out keyboard.
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

Do any of the following:
• If you are using the slide-out keyboard, press the Symbol key. Press the letter key that appears below the symbol.
•If you are using your BlackBerry® device in portrait view with the SureType® input method, press the Symbol key. To see more symbols,
press the Symbol key again. Click a symbol.
•If you are using your device in portrait view with the multi-tap keyboard, press a key once to type the first symbol on the key, twice to
type the second symbol on the key, or three times to type the third symbol on the key. To view a list of symbols that do not appear on
the keyboard, press the Symbol key.
• If you are using your device in landscape view or in portrait view with the full keyboard, press the Symbol key. Click a symbol.

Type an accent or special character

Do any of the following:
•If you are using the slide-out keyboard, press and hold a letter key and, on the trackpad, slide your finger left or right until the accented
or special character appears.
•If you are using the touch screen keyboard, press and hold a letter key. Click the accented or special character in the list that appears.

Clear text from a field

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