Re: How to change pound sign (#) speed dial on Blackberry 8700

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"KCat" <kkattx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:06:11 -0400, Robert Green wrote:
>
> > when you press # you're really pressing the speedial letter Q
>
> Oh my!
> You're right.
> I'm so dumb.
> That's how I set it looong ago.
> I didn't realize this until you said it.
> I set the Q key which to me was the # sign.
> Oh my.
> Can I delete my prior posts so I don't look so stupid?

(-:

There are no stupid questions.  In this case, you may have been fooled by
their transition from the numeric to the alpha speed dial system.  Now that
I think about it, they should really offer 52 speed dial options by
incorporating the shift key.  I think it's a perfectly natural mistake to
me.  It took me a while to figure it out, too, since I haven't touched a
Blackberry in quite some time.

I might not have if there wasn't a glitch in the newer units that screws up
the voicemail speed dial.  I saw that article that made me realize what
might be happening because the author wrote "When I press the 1/W key."
That made some neurons click and I realized there are two characters on each
key for speed dial, but only the unshifted ones appear on the pull down
list.  I should have realized as soon as I read your messages that # wasn't
a valid speed dial number but I didn't.  So don't feel bad, I'll bet many
others have made the very same mistake, too.  The # stands out more,
visually speaking, on the key cap than the Q so it's pretty natural your
brain made the morph.  Glad we got it solved.

--
Bobby G.