How to force displaying of "Notifications" screen

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On the top title bar on the HD2 screen, it shows battery level, signal level, time ,ect.

At times it will also show an "email" icon, or and "SMS" icon to indicate that a new email or sms came in.

But, I only know to carefully tap the title bar on the middle to right side of the titlebar to then pop-up/display the full-screen notification app which more easily displays a verbose/detailed description of any notifications.

Does anyone know if there is a way to display this "Notification" screen via a shortcut instead of having to tediously tap the top title bar on the screen?

settings menu all settings sounds and notifications notifications tab in top select "message new email message" and tick show on screen.

Originally Posted by samsamuel

settings menu all settings sounds and notifications notifications tab in top select "message new email message" and tick show on screen.

I am sorry, I meant to say how can I call up the "nitification" master screen even if there are currently no notifications to announce.

In other words, it seems the left softkey on home screens for older ROMS use to say "Notifications", which did exactly what I am looking for (to call up that main notification screen). But it seems the new roms change this left softkey to "Action".

So, how can I manually call up the "Notification" screen even if there are no current notifications to display?