There are many hidden keyboard shortcuts and tricks on the Palm Pre. We've already discussed many of them here at PreCentral.net, but here's a list of most of the currently-known keyboard combinations for the Pre. New to these blog pages: the ability to enter text in bold and italic and also to view developer information on open cards.
Before we get to them, though, we will note that the Palm Pre Tips and Tricks PDF from forum member milominderbinde has seen plenty of updates and now includes over 200 tips and tricks! If you haven't yet, you absolutely must register as a member and download this amazing guide!
On to the keyboard shortcuts!
Key Combos
- Screenshot: Orange + Shift + P. There will be no indicator that your screenshot succeeded, but check out the Screencapture gallery in your Photo app to see them
- Open Card Information: Orange + Sym + i. You will see information about the open card, including how many images the app is using, how many DOM nodes, Render nodes, and Render layers it's calling. Potentially useful to web developers learning how to program for the webOS.
- Soft-Reset: Orange + Sym + R. Will automatically reset your Palm Pre.
Bold and Italic
New to us - in certain apps you can enter text as Bold and Italic. It's a little buggy yet, but we expect that we'll see these as official features as soon as Palm is able to work out the kinks.
- Bold text: Sym + B. This will only work in apps that can accept rich text. So it works in email but not in memos, for example. You can hold this combo down before you start typing or highlight your text and then hit it to make your text bold.
- Italic Text: Sym + i. As with bold, only works in certain apps. Also note that the Pre will try to enter international "i" characters
Longer keyboard tricks
- Landscape email: on the mailbox listing view, (the top level), type RocknRollHax (hold down shift + letter for the caps). This will allow you to rotate into landscape mode. Resets after you close the card.
- Developer Mode: Type upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart. This will allow you to turn on Developer Mode so you can hack away at your Pre.
Other Keyboard Tricks
- Advanced Calculator functions: Hit the spacebar to toggle calculator functions: M-, Percent, Square Root, and +/-
- Open a link in a new browser card: Hold down Orange + Space and tap a link.
- Take a photo: You can hit the spacebar to take a picture in the Camera app.
- Delete an app: Orange + Tap
- Select text: hold down Shift then slide your finger left, right, up, or down to move the cursor. Only works in editable text fields
- Move the cursor: hold down Orange and slide your finger left, right, up, or down to position the cursor more accurately than tapping.
...There are many many other tricks not involving the keyboard like getting a menu in landscape mode, holding down your finger in the gesture area for copy and paste, and more. It's all in the Tips & Tricks PDF.
Anything keyboard-specific we missed? Let us know in the comments and we'll update the post!
Thanks to everybody in the forums for finding all these great tricks, especially milominderbinde. Thanks to Eric for the heads-up on the card info trick!
Comments
Just fyi Dieter, you added an extra "down" to the Konami/Developer Mode Code. :) otherwise these are some really great tips!
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Now let's hope we get some real keyboard shortcuts, particularly in email - come on Palm - you can do it!
1. Select all messsages
2. Mark as read
3. Find....
4. Got to first unread message
I love that circle on the right that shows how many messages are unread - now how bout some handlers for it - like finding them easily or marking them read.
and PLEASE an option to HIDE READ MESSAGES!
Then like on a blackberry "T" to go to the top of the inbox, "B" to go to the bottom of the inbox, "U" to the first unread message - let's get this PRE to rock and really start giving some competition to the other devices on the market.
And open next unread after delete.
Sorry, dumb question...How does one open up the edit menu to get font colors?
Flipping the "silence" switch will also bring up the web menu in landscape.
Also, if you hold down the symbol button and press certain letters, you'll get relevant options. For example if you hold sym and press e you get to select e with various accent/language marks. Clicking the letter multiple times cycles through the options.
Holding shift or sym and pressing backspace deletes an entire word.
In email, hitting shift-enter acts like tab, moving you from To: to Subject: to Body: in a cycle
Not a keyboard shortcut, but I just noticed the edit menu in email gives you the option to do bold, italics, underline, and change the font color. And here I thought it was always just cut, copy, and paste! It looks like color works different than b, I, or u: you have to select the text then go pick the color you want.
Sorry, dumb question...How does one open up the edit menu to get font colors?
Dieter.
What a coincidence! I was working this morning on a new thread, One-Key shortcuts:
http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/190459-one-key-shortcuts.html
In a way, I guess I always knew about them but never thought about how cool they are. Even now I have three pages, top and bottom in my Launcher for effectively 6 pages.
With the one-key shortcut you are never more than two taps away from any of your apps.
- Craig (milominderbinde)
Here's a trick!
(1) Open the web browser, go to a web page with form fields, and click on a form field.
(2) Press the symbol button on the keyboard.
(3) Select a symbol from the dialog that pops up (e.g. [ or ] or < or >)
Voila! Absolutely nothing happens. We're at 1.0.4 and this still hasn't been fixed. You can't use wikis on the Pre.
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Hold down the Space bar when taking a photo and it will continue to take a photo roughly every one second.
http://precentral.net/diy-stop-motion-video-pre
I didn't see it mentioned, maybe it's obvious, but to cut/copy/paste you touch the gesture area and hit x/c/v.
Maybe they should make bold and italics the same way - genture + b and gesture + i.
I wholeheartedly agree. The gesture area shortcuts are SO much better than option/symbol/shift combos. Also, it would remove the issue with getting an unintentional accented "i" when you switch to italics.
There are so many short cuts that would work like that:
of course italics/bold/underline, but what about
a: select all
z: undo
f: find (not like universal search, inside a webpage or document)
h: go to the top of a page (home). Could also use gesture area plus an down swipe to scroll all the way up
e: go to the bottom of a page (end) or up swipe(see above)
Gesture area + tap a link could be the Save As: option or even a right-click that gives you various options.
How in the heck do you undo the open card information. Look at the top of this page it I enabled it and now it's always there it's annoying!
do the key combination again
Thank you to the author of the PDF.... Very helpful
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you go to your messages and slide the message you want to the right and click delete.
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just slide it and a delete button appears.
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HELP! How do you change the default color on email? Right now whenever I reply to an email it shows up in Blue Font. I can not use this for business. I know that I can go to edit and change the font color but is there any way to just make Black the default font color instead of Blue?! Please help, thanks
When will we be able to change email text font? I have arial 9 for my signature and verdana 12 for text. I cant even use this for work...I'll get fired !
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