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Page ii Visor Handheld User Guide Contents About This Guide ....................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Your Visor Handheld Getting to know your Visor handheld ...............................................3 What is a Visor handheld? ...............................................................3 System requirements ........................................................................4 Upgrade information ........................................................................5 Visor components .............................................................................6 Installing the batteries ........................................................................10 Tapping and typing ............................................................................11 Tap with the stylus to get things done .........................................11 Elements of the handheld interface ..............................................12 Opening applications .....................................................................13 Using menus ....................................................................................14 Three ways to enter data ................................................................16 Customizing your handheld..............................................................20 Palm Desktop software ..................................................................21 Connecting the cradle .....................................................................22 Using your handheld with Microsoft Outlook (Windows only) ...............................................................................23 Using your handheld with another PIM .....................................23 Installing a Springboard module ..................................................24 Chapter 2: Entering Data in Your Visor Handheld Using Graffiti writing to enter data ..................................................25 Writing Graffiti characters .............................................................25 Graffiti tips .......................................................................................27 The Graffiti alphabet .......................................................................28 Writing capital letters .....................................................................29 Writing numbers .............................................................................29 Graffiti numbers ..............................................................................30 Writing punctuation marks ...........................................................30 Writing symbols and extended characters ..................................31 Writing accented characters ..........................................................32 Accent strokes ..................................................................................32 Additional non-English characters ...............................................32 Navigation strokes ..........................................................................33 Graffiti ShortCuts ............................................................................33 Using the onscreen keyboard ...........................................................34 Using your computer keyboard ........................................................35 Importing data .....................................................................................35 Contents Page iii Chapter 3: Managing Your Applications Using the Applications Launcher..................................................... 37 Selecting applications ..................................................................... 37 Switching between applications ................................................... 37 Categorizing applications .............................................................. 37 Changing the Applications Launcher display ............................ 38 Choosing preferences ......................................................................... 39 Installing and removing applications .............................................. 40 Installing add-on applications ...................................................... 40 Installing games .............................................................................. 42 Removing applications .................................................................. 43 Removing Palm Desktop software ............................................... 43 Security................................................................................................. 44 Assigning a password .................................................................... 44 Changing or deleting a password ................................................ 45 Locking your handheld ................................................................. 45 Recovering from a forgotten password ....................................... 46 Chapter 4: Overview of Basic Applications Date Book ............................................................................................. 48 Date Book Plus .................................................................................... 49 Address Book ...................................................................................... 50 To Do List............................................................................................. 51 Memo Pad ............................................................................................ 52 Calculator............................................................................................. 53 CityTime............................................................................................... 54 Expense................................................................................................. 55 Chapter 5: Common Tasks Creating records.................................................................................. 57 Editing records .................................................................................... 58 Entering text .................................................................................... 58 Edit menu ......................................................................................... 58 Deleting records .................................................................................. 60 Other ways to delete records ........................................................ 60 Purging records................................................................................... 61 Exchanging and updating data: HotSync operations.................... 62 Performing a HotSync operation for the first time .................... 62 Categorizing records .......................................................................... 64 System-defined and user-defined categories ............................. 64 Finding records ................................................................................... 68 Looking up Address Book records .............................................. 68 Using Find ....................................................................................... 69 Using Phone Lookup ...................................................................... 70 Page iv Visor Handheld User Guide Sorting lists of records ........................................................................73 Making records private ......................................................................74 Hiding private records ...................................................................74 Attaching notes ....................................................................................76 Choosing fonts .....................................................................................77 Chapter 6: Application Specific Tasks Date Book .............................................................................................80 Scheduling an event ........................................................................80 Rescheduling an event ...................................................................84 Setting an alarm for an event ........................................................84 Scheduling repeating or continuous events ................................85 Changing the Date Book view .......................................................87 Working in Week View ..................................................................87 Working in Month View ................................................................89 Spotting event conflicts ..................................................................89 Date Book menus ............................................................................90 Date Book Plus.....................................................................................93 Working in Week View with Text ................................................93 Working in Year View ....................................................................94 Working in List View .....................................................................95 Working with floating events ........................................................95 Working with To Do List items .....................................................97 Using the Daily Journal ..................................................................98 Using templates ...............................................................................99 Using snooze alarms .....................................................................100 Selecting the default Date Book ..................................................100 Date Book Plus menus ..................................................................100 Address Book .....................................................................................110 Creating an Address Book entry .................................................110 Selecting types of phone numbers ..............................................111 Changing Address Entry details .................................................112 Address Book menus ....................................................................113 To Do List ...........................................................................................115 Setting priority ...............................................................................115 Checking off a To Do List item ....................................................116 Changing To Do List item details ...............................................116 Setting a due date ..........................................................................117 To Do Show Options .....................................................................118 To Do List menus ..........................................................................119 Memo Pad...........................................................................................120 Reviewing memos .........................................................................121 Memo Pad menus .........................................................................121 Page v Calculator........................................................................... ...