User Guide

Settings and options

Keyboard and typing

Keyboard and typing at a glance

Home screen shortcuts

You can use your BlackBerry Keyboard with Instant Action to quickly perform a number of tasks when you type certain commands in the search field. You can use home screen shortcuts to make a call, send email or text messages, start a BBM chat, update your Facebook status, post a tweet or a LinkedIn update, find a location in the Maps app, play music, or add notes and tasks to BlackBerry Remember.

Make a call

1.On the home screen, tap .

2.Type call and the name or number of the person that you want to call. For example, you can type call Ian or call 5195550100.

3.Beneath Actions, tap the action that you want to perform.

Send an email

1.On the home screen, tap .

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Blackberry P'9982 manual Keyboard and typing at a glance Home screen shortcuts, Send an email