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Page 2 VisorTM Handheld User Guide Contents About This Guide ....................................................................................9 Chapter 1: Introduction to Your VisorTM Handheld ...........................11 Getting to know your handheld........................................................11 What is a Visor handheld? .............................................................11 System requirements ......................................................................12 Upgrade information ......................................................................12 Visor components ...........................................................................14 Charging the battery ...........................................................................18 Connecting the cradle .....................................................................18 Tapping and typing ............................................................................20 Tap with the stylus to get things done .........................................20 Elements of the handheld interface ..............................................21 Opening applications .....................................................................22 Using menus ....................................................................................23 Four ways to enter data ..................................................................26 Customizing your handheld..............................................................30 Palm Desktop software ..................................................................31 Using your handheld with another PIM .....................................32 Installing a Springboard module ..................................................33 Chapter 2: Entering Data in Your Handheld .......................................35 Using Graffiti writing to enter data ..................................................35 Writing Graffiti characters .............................................................35 Graffiti tips .......................................................................................37 The Graffiti alphabet .......................................................................38 Writing capital letters .....................................................................39 Writing numbers .............................................................................39 Graffiti numbers ..............................................................................40 Writing punctuation marks ...........................................................40 Writing symbols and extended characters ..................................41 Writing accented characters ..........................................................42 Accent strokes ..................................................................................42 Additional non-English characters ...............................................42 Navigation strokes ..........................................................................43 Graffiti ShortCuts ............................................................................43 Using the onscreen keyboard ...........................................................44 Using your computer keyboard ........................................................45 Importing data .....................................................................................45 Using an external keyboard ...............................................................47 Page 3 Chapter 3: Managing Your Applications .............................................49 Using the Applications Launcher..................................................... 49 Selecting applications ..................................................................... 49 Switching between applications ................................................... 49 Categorizing applications .............................................................. 49 Changing the Applications Launcher display ............................ 51 Choosing preferences ......................................................................... 52 Installing and removing applications .............................................. 52 Installing add-on applications ...................................................... 52 Installing games .............................................................................. 55 Removing applications .................................................................. 55 Removing Palm Desktop software ............................................... 57 Security................................................................................................. 58 Assigning a password .................................................................... 59 Changing or deleting a password ................................................ 59 Locking your handheld ................................................................. 60 Recovering from a forgotten password ....................................... 61 Chapter 4: Overview of Basic Applications.........................................63 Date Book ............................................................................................. 64 Date Book Plus .................................................................................... 65 Address ................................................................................................ 66 To Do List............................................................................................. 67 Memo Pad ............................................................................................ 68 Calculator............................................................................................. 69 CityTime............................................................................................... 70 Expense................................................................................................. 71 Chapter 5: Common Tasks ....................................................................73 Creating records.................................................................................. 73 Editing records .................................................................................... 74 Entering text .................................................................................... 74 Edit menu ......................................................................................... 74 Deleting records .................................................................................. 76 Other ways to delete records ........................................................ 76 Purging records................................................................................... 77 Exchanging and updating data: HotSync operations.................... 78 Performing a HotSync operation for the first time .................... 78 Categorizing records .......................................................................... 80 System-defined and user-defined categories ............................. 81 Finding records ................................................................................... 84 Looking up Address records ........................................................ 84 Using Find ....................................................................................... 87 Using Phone Lookup ...................................................................... 88 Page 4 VisorTM Handheld User Guide Sorting lists of records ........................................................................91 Making records private ......................................................................92 Hiding and masking private records ...........................................92 Attaching notes ....................................................................................95 Choosing fonts .....................................................................................96 Chapter 6: Application Specific Tasks .................................................97 Date Book .............................................................................................98 Scheduling an event ........................................................................98 Rescheduling an event .................................................................102 Setting an alarm for an event ......................................................102 Scheduling repeating or continuous events ..............................103 Changing the Date Book view .....................................................106 Working in Week View ................................................................106 Working in Month View ..............................................................108 Working in Agenda view .............................................................108 Spotting event conflicts ................................................................109 Date Book menus ..........................................................................110 Date Book Plus...................................................................................113 Working in Week View with Text ..............................................113 Working in Year View ..................................................................114 Working in List View ...................................................................115 Working with floating events ......................................................115 Working with To Do items ..........................................................117 Using the Daily Journal ................................................................118 Using templates .............................................................................119 Using snooze alarms .....................................................................120 Selecting the default Date Book ..................................................120 Date Book Plus menus ..................................................................120 Address ...............................................................................................129 Creating an Address entry ...........................................................129 Duplicating an entry .....................................................................130 Selecting types of phone numbers ..............................................131 Changing Address Entry details .................................................131 Address menus ..............................................................................132 To Do List ...........................................................................................135 Setting priority ...............................................................................135 Checking off a To Do item ...........................................................136 Changing To Do item details ......................................... ...