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Page ii VisorTM Edge Handheld User Guide Contents About This Guide ....................................................................................1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Your VisorTM Edge Handheld....................3 Getting to know your handheld..........................................................3 What is a Visor Edge handheld? .....................................................3 System requirements ........................................................................4 Upgrade information ........................................................................4 Visor Edge components ...................................................................6 Charging the battery ...........................................................................11 Connecting the cradle .....................................................................11 Tapping and typing ............................................................................14 Tap with the stylus to get things done .........................................14 Elements of the handheld interface ..............................................15 Opening applications .....................................................................16 Using menus ....................................................................................17 Four ways to enter data ..................................................................20 Customizing your handheld..............................................................24 Palm Desktop software ..................................................................25 Using your handheld with another PIM .....................................26 Installing a Springboard module ..................................................27 Chapter 2: Entering Data in Your Handheld .......................................29 Using Graffiti writing to enter data ..................................................29 Writing Graffiti characters .............................................................29 Graffiti tips .......................................................................................31 The Graffiti alphabet .......................................................................32 Writing capital letters .....................................................................33 Writing numbers .............................................................................33 Graffiti numbers ..............................................................................34 Writing punctuation marks ...........................................................34 Writing symbols and extended characters ..................................35 Writing accented characters ..........................................................36 Accent strokes ..................................................................................36 Additional non-English characters ...............................................36 Navigation strokes ..........................................................................37 Graffiti ShortCuts ............................................................................37 Using the onscreen keyboard ...........................................................38 Using your computer keyboard ........................................................39 Importing data .....................................................................................39 Using an external keyboard ...............................................................41 Page iii Chapter 3: Managing Your Applications .............................................43 Using the Applications Launcher..................................................... 43 Selecting applications ..................................................................... 43 Switching between applications ................................................... 43 Categorizing applications .............................................................. 43 Changing the Applications Launcher display ............................ 45 Choosing preferences ......................................................................... 46 Installing and removing applications .............................................. 46 Installing add-on applications ...................................................... 46 Installing games .............................................................................. 48 Removing applications .................................................................. 49 Removing Palm Desktop software ............................................... 50 Security................................................................................................. 51 Assigning a password .................................................................... 51 Changing or deleting a password ................................................ 52 Locking your handheld ................................................................. 52 Recovering from a forgotten password ....................................... 53 Chapter 4: Overview of Basic Applications.........................................55 Date Book ............................................................................................. 56 Date Book Plus .................................................................................... 57 Address ................................................................................................ 58 To Do List............................................................................................. 59 Memo Pad ............................................................................................ 60 Calculator............................................................................................. 61 CityTime............................................................................................... 62 Expense................................................................................................. 63 Chapter 5: Common Tasks ....................................................................65 Creating records.................................................................................. 65 Editing records .................................................................................... 66 Entering text .................................................................................... 66 Edit menu ......................................................................................... 66 Deleting records .................................................................................. 68 Other ways to delete records ........................................................ 68 Purging records................................................................................... 69 Exchanging and updating data: HotSync operations.................... 70 Performing a HotSync operation for the first time .................... 70 Categorizing records .......................................................................... 72 System-defined and user-defined categories ............................. 73 Finding records ................................................................................... 76 Looking up Address records ........................................................ 76 Using Find ....................................................................................... 79 Using Phone Lookup ...................................................................... 80 Page iv VisorTM Edge Handheld User Guide Sorting lists of records ........................................................................83 Making records private ......................................................................84 Hiding and masking private records ...........................................84 Attaching notes ....................................................................................87 Choosing fonts .....................................................................................88 Chapter 6: Application Specific Tasks .................................................89 Date Book .............................................................................................90 Scheduling an event ........................................................................90 Rescheduling an event ...................................................................94 Setting an alarm for an event ........................................................94 Scheduling repeating or continuous events ................................95 Changing the Date Book view .......................................................98 Working in Week View ..................................................................98 Working in Month View ..............................................................100 Working in Agenda view .............................................................100 Spotting event conflicts ................................................................101 Date Book menus ..........................................................................102 Date Book Plus...................................................................................105 Working in Week View with Text ..............................................105 Working in Year View ..................................................................106 Working in List View ...................................................................107 Working with floating events ......................................................107 Working with To Do items ..........................................................109 Using the Daily Journal ................................................................110 Using templates .............................................................................111 Using snooze alarms .....................................................................112 Selecting the default Date Book ..................................................112 Date Book Plus menus ..................................................................112 Address ...............................................................................................121 Creating an Address entry ...........................................................121 Duplicating an entry .....................................................................122 Selecting types of phone numbers ..............................................123 Changing Address Entry details .................................................123 Address menus ..............................................................................124 To Do List ...........................................................................................127 Setting priority ...............................................................................127 Checking off a To Do item ...........................................................128 Changing To Do item details .......................................................128 Setting a due date ..........................................................................129 To Do Show Options .....................................................................130 To Do List menus ..........................................................................131 Me ...