Learn all the tips and tricks for your BlackBerry® 8700 Series smartphone. Select an application or topic below to get started.
Home Screen Tips
Phone Tips
Browser
Typing
Messages
Calculator
Navigating Screens
Organizer/Calendar
General Tips
Attachments
Home Screen Tips
Move icon on Home screen
Vertically scroll between icons
Return to the Home screen from other screens
Lock your BlackBerry device
Lock the keyboard
Phone Tips
Open the Phone screen
Change volume during call
Insert an extension
Show the last number typed
Access your voice mail
Type letters in a phone number
Mute call
To turn mute off
Turn on Speakerphone
Browser
Toggle full-screen mode/normal mode
Add a bookmark
Open bookmarks
Refresh a web page
Return to the last page viewed
Display list of useful bookmarks
View address of current web page
View list of the last 20 pages visited
Save a web page to Messages list
Go to home page
View, copy or send the address for a link
Move a page down
Move a page up
Stop a web page from loading
Open browser options
Typing
Capitalize a letter
Insert a period
Type alternate character
Type a symbol
Type accented/special character
Insert currency symbol
Select text by character
Select whole lines
Turn on CAP-Lock
Turn on NUM-Lock
Turn off NUM/CAP-Lock
Insert “@” into an email field
Messages
Mark a message opened/unopened
Move down a page in a message
Move up a page in a message
Reply to a message
Forward a message
Reply-to-all
View SMS messages
View voice mail messages
Calculator
Display calculation results
Clear screen
Clear last entry
Add
Subtract
Multiply
Divide
Find square root
Find percent
Add a number to memory
Recall memory
Replace memory
Clear memory
Metric conversions
Navigating Screens
Move down a screen
Move up a screen
Move to item in list or menu
Select multiple items/icons
Organizer/Calendar
NOTE: For these tips to work in Day view,
in the calendar options, set Enable Quick Entry field to No
Find a contact in address book
Jump to next day in calendar
Jump to previous day in calendar
Change to Agenda view
Change to day view
Change to week format
Change to month format
Move to current date
Move to specific date
Create an appointment
Move to the next day, week or month
Move to the previous day, week or month
Move cursor horizontally in Week view
Move cursor vertically in Month view
General Tips
Delete prior messages
Save battery
Attachments
Move to specific cell
Display the contents of specific cell
To learn more about making the most of your BlackBerry smartphone, view the BlackBerry 101 interactive demo.
