Blackberry Q5 manual Keyboard and typing at a glance Home screen shortcuts

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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 on the home screen. 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, 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.

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