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Creating a user profile
If you use the File Link feature to configure several Handspring, Inc.
handheld computers with specific information (such as a c ompany
phone list) before dist ributing them to their ac tual users, you can
create a user profile to load the data into an handheld without
associating that data with a user name. The User Profile feature is
designed only for the first-time H otSync operatio n, before you as sign
a User ID to a parti cular handheld.
To create a user profile:
1. Open Palm Desktop software.
2. From the Tools menu, choose Users.
3. Click Profiles.
4. Click New.
5. Enter a unique name for the profile, an d click OK.
6. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each profile that you want to create, and
then click OK to return to Palm Desktop software.
7. Select the profile from the User list and create the data for the
profile (e.g., company phone list, etc.).