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Setting an alarm for an event

The Alarm setting enables you to set an audible alarm for events in Date Book Plus. You can set an alarm to sound minutes, hours, or days before an event. The default Alarm setting is 5 minutes before the time of the event, but you can change this to any number of minutes, hours, or days.

When you set an alarm, this icon appears to the far right of the event with the alarm. When the alarm tone sounds, a reminder message also appears onscreen.

Note: Make sure the ringer is on. Silencing the ringer turns off all system sounds, including alarms. When you silence the ringer, Date Book Plus alarms vibrate.

To set an alarm for an event:

1.Tap the event to which you want to assign an alarm.

2.Tap Details.

3.Tap the Alarm check box to select it.

4.Tap the pick list to select Minutes, Hours, or Days.

5.Select the 5 and enter any number from 0 to 99 (inclusive) as the number of time units.

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Enter numberof time units here

Tap here to select unit of time

6.Hold Option and press Return to finish.

Alarm for untimed events: You can set a silent alarm for an untimed event. In this case, the alarm triggers at the specified period of minutes, hours, or days before midnight (beginning) of the day of the untimed event. No audible alarm sounds for an untimed event; instead, the reminder message appears onscreen.

For example, you set an alarm for an untimed event that occurs on February 4th. If the alarm is set for 5 minutes, the reminder message appears at 11:55 PM on the night of February 3rd. The reminder remains onscreen until you

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