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Contents
About This Guide ....................................................................................1
Chapter 1: Introduction to Your Visor Handheld.................................3
Getting to know you r Visor handheld ........ ........................ ...............3
What is a Visor hand held? ....... ........................ ......................... .......3
System requirements ........... ........................... ........................... .......4
Upgrade information ....................... ........................... ......................4
Visor components ......... ............................. ........................... ............6
Installing the batteries ........................................................................10
Tapping and typing ....... .............................. .......................... .............11
Tap with the stylus to get things don e ................... ...................... 11
Elements of the ha ndheld interface ................ ......................... .....12
Opening application s ...................... ......................... ...................... 13
Using menus ............. ........................ ........................... ....................14
Four ways to enter data .............. ......................... ........................ ...17
Customizing your h andheld........ ........................ ........................... ...20
Palm Desktop softw are ........................ ........................ ..................22
Connecting the crad le ............... ........................ ......................... .....22
Using your handheld with another PIM ........................... ..........24
Installing a Springboar d module ...... .......................... ..................24
Chapter 2: Entering Data in Your Visor Handheld.............................25
Using Graffiti writin g to enter data ............. ........................ .............25
Writing Graffiti charact ers .............. ........................... ....................25
Graffiti tips .................. ......................... ........................ ....................27
The Graffiti alphabe t ................... ......................... ........................ ...28
Writing capital lette rs ..... ......................... ........................ ...............29
Writing numbers .................. ............................. ........................... ...29
Graffiti numbers ................. ........................ ........................ .............30
Writing punctuatio n marks ...................... ........................ .............30
Writing symbols and extended characte rs ....... ........................ ...31
Writing accented ch aracters .............. .......................... ..................32
Accent strokes .... .......................... ........................... .........................3 2
Additional non-Engl ish characters ......................... ...................... 32
Navigation strokes .......... ......................... ........................ ...............33
Graffiti ShortCuts ............... ........................ ........................... ..........33
Using the onscreen keyboard ................. ........................ ..................34
Using your compute r keyboard ..................... ......................... ..........35
Importing data ........................ .......................... ........................... ........35
Using an external k eyboard.... ........................ ......................... ..........36