Comments on: Triple Your BlackBerry Typing Speed with Autotext

By: Nan Palmero

Nan Palmero — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:32:23 +0000

I don’t know of a way for you to do that due to being able to place the cursor in a specific location. My best suggestion is having “hu” turn into “[hide until: ” waiting for you to complete the string with the 12/04]. That’s best I’ve got!

By: Gene Littleton

Gene Littleton — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:49:54 +0000

Does anyone know of a way to enter a macro that will just move the cursor back a few spaces? I am trying to enter a command in emails that a parser will be able to use. i.e. “[hide until: 12/04]” I am trying to set up an AutoText string that will type out “[hide until: ]” but place the cursor inside the right bracket so I can just type “hu” and then immediately type “12/04″ without having to move the cursor manually (at least until I’m through with the date).

By: David

David — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:08:25 +0000

Here are some I found, and where I found them…

* %D – Long Date (Fri, Jun 1, 2008)
* %o – Name (as entered in Options –> Owner –> Name)
* %O – Information (as entered in Options –> Owner –> Information)
* %p – 12345678901 (Device Phone Number. No punctuation)
* %P – 12345678 (Device PIN)
* %T – Long Time (6:58:20 AM)
* %V – 8800/4.2.1.79 (Device Model/OS Version)

http://forums.pinstack.com/blog.php?b=671

By: ffgs

ffgs — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:18:39 +0000

This you very much!!
Your tip is very helpful!!

By: How to increase your typing speed with BlackBerry Autotext at SmartPhoneCool.com

How to increase your typing speed with BlackBerry Autotext at SmartPhoneCool.com — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:01:37 +0000

[...] It’s Monday and you’ve got a long week ahead of you. The economy is in shambles but it’s in hard times that one’s true character shows. So now it’s time to start pumping out emails like never before. To do this, Nan has written a simple guide to using BlackBerry Autotext. One way I have found to triple the speed of my typing is by adding words to my autotext. Here is how to add words and shortcuts as well as a list that I currently am using. Do you have some good ones that I should know about? Please share in the comments! [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:18:10 +0000

ss = (which is normally a 4 button sequence)
ww =
wu = What are you up to?

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By: Bobby Freeman

Bobby Freeman — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:25:11 +0000

That is a cool trick I didn’t know about, I will pay attention to what I type frequently and keep adding to my AutoText list!

By: Nan Palmero

Nan Palmero — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:31:42 +0000

Thanks Françoys! There are a bunch of them, but I don’t know what they mean. You can find them by going to Options and checking the list. Great idea on your use, really cool!

By: Françoys Crépeau

Françoys Crépeau — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:23:11 +0000

I will often precede my emails with location-date-time stamp, just to make things clearer to the recipient, who might not be a nerd. For that, I have defined in AutoText a few entries for a few different cities they are of the form “odt”, “mdt”, “rdt”, etc., and are defined as follows: (Ottawa, %D, %T) for “odt”.
“odt” will then expand to “Ottawa, Sat, Oct 25, 2008, 16:20:01″.

Now let me throw the ball back in everybody else’s court:

Other than the currently documented AutoText macros such as %D, %T, etc., does anybody know of any other ones that BB might use internally?