Blackberry Torch 9850 9860 7 1 User Guide

About backing up and restoring smartphone data
If you have installed the BlackBerry Desktop Software on your computer, you can back up and restore most of your 
BlackBerry smartphone data, including messages, organizer data, fonts, saved searches, and browser bookmarks using 
the 
BlackBerry Desktop Software. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software.
If you haven't saved anything on your media card, you can back up and restore most of your smartphone data using your...

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.To highlight the text, touch the beginning and the end of the text.
2.To adjust the highlighted text, slide the cursor frame.
3.Press the  key. 
4.Click Cut or Copy.
5.Place the cursor where you want to insert the cut or copied text.
6.Press the  key > Paste. 
Type a symbol
Do any of the following:
 • If you're using the full keyboard in landscape or portrait view, tap the  key. Tap the  key. Tap the symbol.
 • If you're using the reduced keyboard with...

Clear text from a field
In a field that you typed text into, press the  key > Clear Field. 
Typing input methods
About typing input methods
The typing input method that you use determines how you type. For example, if you're using the predictive input method, your 
BlackBerry smartphone displays a list of suggested words as you type so that you don't have to type the entire word.
The language that you're typing in determines the typing input methods that are available. If you're typing in...

•To turn off all typing assistance, change the Style field to Direct. If the Direct option doesn't appear, on the home 
screen, click 
Options > Typing and Language > Keyboard. Change the Portrait Keyboard Type field to Full.
•To set your smartphone to suggest word predictions as you type, change the Style field to Predictive.
•To set your smartphone to type the first letter on a key when you press a key once and type the second letter on  the key when you press the key twice, change the 
Style field...

If you're using the SureType input method, even though most keys have more than one letter, you only have to press the 
letter key for each letter in a word once. Your smartphone also displays a list of suggested words so that you don't have to  type the entire word.
1.Press the letter key once for each letter in a word.
2.Do any of the following:
 • To select a word from the list that appears when you type and start typing a new word, highlight the word. Press 
the 
 key on the keyboard.
•To...

Turn on or turn off trackpad sounds
1.On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2.Click Typing and Language > Trackpad Sensitivity.
3.Select or clear the Audible Roll checkbox.
4.Press the  key > Save. 
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...

Press the  key > Save. 
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. 
Because SureType technology uses the same dictionary, if you're using the SureType input method, words that 
you add to your custom dictionary are displayed in the list that appears when you type.
1.On the home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.
2.Click Typing and...