As a previous 10-year Palm OS/Treo user, I'm still learning the keyboard shortcuts on my BB 8700g. ("M" for Message is weird to me, I think E-Mail, not Message. "D" for Memopad is not intuitive. And "F" for Profiles and not "P", huh?). So, my 40-year old brain needs the help.

Also, I'm continually frustrated when I'm asked on a phone call to input text that requires the use of the phone keypad alpha characters. You know, "Spell the name of the person you are trying to reach", or addressing voicemails by last name...

So, I sat down and made up this .xls file to use as a memory aid. I printed these bits and shrunk them down small on label paper and stuck on my BB case as a reference. Elegant, no. Accessible, yes.

You'll find two bits in this file:

1. A QWERTYish list of Home screen keyboard shortcuts.
2. A touch-tone keypad map that has the digits and corresponding alpha characters on it.

A few notes: first, I use Mark Rejhon's cool QuickNote and QuickCompose (great freeware!) so you'll see these on the shortcut diagram. Second, this file is nothing special. Feel free to correct it, modify it, change it, love it or hate it. I did this to help me with my T-Mo 8700g, I hope it helps someone else. (Hell, someone probably did something like it already...)

Final note: I couldn't the upload the .xls file, so I pasted the cells into Word as an Excel Object. Just open the Word file and double-click on the Object and it will open the spreadsheet. It's easy to make changes and print from there...

Enjoy, (pg)