Blackberry Porsche Design P 9981 7 1 User Guide

About categories
You can create categories to group your contacts, tasks, and memos. You can also narrow the contacts, tasks, and memos 
that appear based on categories.
Category names are not case sensitive. More than one category can apply to a contact, task, or memo. If you use IBM Lotus 
Notes
, you can apply more than one category to a task on your BlackBerry smartphone, but only one category synchronizes 
with the task in 
Lotus Notes.
Categories are shared between the contact list, the task list,...

To delete a category, highlight the category. Press the  key > Delete.
Turn off the prompt that appears before 
you delete items
You can turn off the prompt that appears before you delete messages, call logs, contacts, calendar entries, tasks, memos, 
or passwords.
1.On the home screen, click the application icon for an application that prompts you before you delete items.
2.Press the  key > Options. 
3.If necessary, click General Options.
4.Clear the Confirm Delete checkbox.
5.Press the  key > Save....

Typing
How to: Typing
Typing icons
These icons appear in the upper-right corner of the screen when you type.
 CAP lock (capital letter lock) Multi-tap mode NUM lock (number lock) Current input language Alt mode
Typing basics
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Highlight, cut, copy, or paste text
1.Press and hold the  key. 
•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. 
3.Click Cut or Copy.
4.Place the cursor where you want to insert the cut or copied text.
5.Press the  key > Paste. 
Type a symbol
Press the  key. Type the letter that appears below the symbol. 
Type a special character or letter with an accent
Clear...

3.For a keyboard, click Advanced Style Options.
4.Change the options.
5.Press the  key > Save. 
Change your typing style
You can change how your BlackBerry smartphone recognizes what you type by selecting a typing style.
1.On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2.Click Typing and Language > Typing.
3.For a keyboard, do one of the following:
•To turn off all typing assistance, change the Style field to Direct.
•To set your smartphone to suggest word predictions as you type, change the...

Set the trackpad sensitivity
You can set how the trackpad responds to your touch. A high sensitivity level requires less pressure than a lower sensitivity 
level; 20 is the least sensitive, while 100 is the most sensitive. When learning to use the smartphone, some users find a 
sensitivity level of 20 the easiest to use.
1.On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2.Click Typing and Language > Trackpad Sensitivity.
3.Change the Horizontal Sensitivity field and Vertical Sensitivity...

Custom dictionary
Add, change, or delete a word in the custom dictionary
You can add words to the custom dictionary so that your BlackBerry smartphone recognizes the word when you check 
spelling.
1.On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2.Click Typing and Language > Custom Dictionary.
 • To add a word to the custom dictionary, press the  key > New. Type a word or letter combination. Press the 
 key on the keyboard.
 • To change a word in the custom dictionary, press the  key > Edit....

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Undo a word substitution change
If the word substitution feature changes a word that you don't want to change, you can undo the change.
When you're typing, press the  key twice. 
Create a word substitution entry
1.On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2.Click Typing and Language > Word Substitution.
3.Press the  key > New. 
4.In the Replace field, type the text to...

2.Click Typing and Language > Typing.
3.For a keyboard, click Advanced Style Options.
4.Clear the Spelling checkbox.
5.Press the  key > Save. 
Spelling checker
You can check spelling if your input language is set to Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, 
French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish,  Swedish, or Turkish.
Stop displaying spelling suggestions in the list that appears when you 
type
By default, if...

•To accept the suggested spelling, click a word in the list that appears.
 • To ignore the suggested spelling, press the  key.
 • To ignore all instances of the suggested spelling, press the  key > Ignore All.
 • To add the word to the custom dictionary, press the  key > Add To Dictionary.
 • To stop checking spelling, press the  key > Cancel Spell Check.
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Troubleshooting: Typing
I can't check spelling
You can check only the spelling of text that you...