Hot Tips For Navigating Your BlackBerry Calendar

I like to watch people fumble around with their BlackBerry calendar ... It's a hobby of mine. They often hit 5 or more keys or thumb through menus to get to their appointment information.

The problem is they have not been trained!

So here are some of the best kept BlackBerry Calendar secrets to streamline your experience.

The first thing you need to do is disable the "Quick Entry" feature. This will take away your ability in the day view to just start entering an appointment. The is an easy trade off as all you need to do is use the "C" Quick Key described below.

Step 1: Open you calendar, hit the BlackBerry logo button and roll down to "Options." Select "General Options," then roll to "Enable Quick Entry". Hit the Space bar to toggle selection to "No"

Step 2: Hit Escape twice to return to your default calendar view

Step 3: Here are you Quick Key short cuts...you are going to love it!

• D - Day View
• W - Week View
• M - Month View
• A - Agenda View
• S - Scrolls through the above views

With in any of the views, here are more Quick Keys:

• N - Next
• P - Previous
• G - Go to a specific date
• T - Go to Today
• C - Create New Appointment

Hitting the same key twice will toggle you between that view and the previous. When creating an appointment and you want to change the duration of the meeting.

• Hold Alt key and roll up or down.

Hope this helps!
-Steve Beauregard
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