Blackberry Passport Smartphone 10 3 1 User Guide

Selecting word suggestions that appear while you type
Your BlackBerry device is designed to learn what you tend to say and where in a sentence you tend to say it. Your device 
uses this information to try to predict what word you might type next and displays suggested words on the row of touch 
screen keys above the keyboard. You can quickly select a suggested word by placing your finger on the keyboard under the 
word and flicking it up toward the screen.
Select a suggested word
To use a word that...

Add a new text shortcut
1.On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.
2.Tap  Settings > Language and Input > Prediction and Correction > Word Substitution. 3.Tap .
Clear the learned words list
The BlackBerry Keyboard learns words and phrasing based on your usage to predict the next word you write. You can clear 
the word list used for word suggestions with the following steps:
1.On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.
2.Tap  Settings > Language and Input > Prediction and...

Language
If you speak more than one language, you can use the language settings to change your display, typing, voice input, or 
BlackBerry Keyboard language. You can also switch to another typing language while you type.
Change your display language
The language you selected during the initial setup of your BlackBerry device is your display language. The home screen, 
BlackBerry Hub, and supported applications display content in this language.
1.On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the...

Select an alternate keyboard layout
Some languages have more than one keyboard layout option. For those languages, you can select the keyboard layout that feels most natural for you to use. The QWERTY keyboard layout is available as an option for all languages.
1.On the Input Language screen, tap one of the enabled languages that you have already selected.
2.If more than one option exists, in the drop-down list, tap a layout.
3.If you want the layout you

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Typing in Chinese
Your BlackBerry device supports Chinese Cangjie, Chinese handwriting, and Wubihua (Strokes) input methods. To type in 
Chinese, you must familiarize yourself with the keyboard layout for Chinese characters. When typing in Pinyin on a non-
Chinese keyboard, you can use the phonetic sound of a character to get Chinese diacritics to appear as word predictions.
The Chinese language input methods support the following features:

Typing in Hebrew
The Hebrew keyboard supports the following features: