Visor Handheld User Guide
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Contents
Overview of Basic Applications
Managing Your Applications
Common Tasks
Application Specific Tasks
Communicating Using Your Handheld
Setting Preferences for Your Handheld
Advanced HotSync Operations
Warranty and Other Product Information
Appendix B Troubleshooting Tips
Appendix D Non-ASCII Characters for Login Scripts
Appendix a Maintaining Your Handheld
About This Guide
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Chapter
What is a Visor handheld?
Getting to know your Visor handheld
Macintosh minimum requirements
System requirements
Windows minimum requirements
Optional equipment
Upgrade information
Each handheld must have a unique name
Visor components
Locating front panel controls
Buttons
Power
Application
Scroll
Using the backlight
Protective cover
Locating back panel components
Installing the batteries
Tapping and typing
Tap with the stylus to get things done
Menu bar
Elements of the handheld interface
Icons Abc 123 Check box Pick list
Previous
Opening applications
Next
Arrows
Using menus
Graffiti menu commands
Choosing a menu
Three ways to enter data
Command
Displaying online tips
Onscreen keyboard
Graffiti writing
Press the Memo Pad application button Tap New
Using Palm Desktop software
Importing data
Customizing your handheld
Palm Desktop software
With Palm Desktop software, you can do the following
Connecting the cradle
Installing Palm Desktop software
Using your handheld with Microsoft Outlook Windows only
Using your handheld with another PIM
Installing a Springboard module
Using Graffiti writing to enter data
Writing Graffiti characters
Lift stylus here Start stroke at heavy dot
Graffiti tips
Graffiti alphabet
Caps Shift
Writing capital letters
Writing numbers
Caps Lock
Writing punctuation marks
Graffiti numbers
Number
Writing symbols and extended characters
Additional Graffiti punctuation
Accent strokes
Writing accented characters
Additional non-English characters
Move cursor right Move cursor left
Navigation strokes
Graffiti ShortCuts
Next Field Address Book only
Using the onscreen keyboard
Entry ShortCut
Using your computer keyboard
Importing data
To import data
Selecting applications
Using the Applications Launcher
Switching between applications
Categorizing applications
Changing the Applications Launcher display
Choosing preferences
Installing and removing applications
Installing add-on applications
Chapter
Installing games
Removing applications
Removing Palm Desktop software
Security
Assigning a password
Security, you can do the following
Changing or deleting a password
Locking your handheld
Recovering from a forgotten password
Overview of Basic Applications
Date Book
Date Book, you can do the following
Date Book Plus
Date Book Plus, you can do the following
Address Book
Address Book, you can do the following
To Do List
To Do List, you can do the following
Memo Pad
Memo Pad, you can do the following
Calculator
Calculator, you can do the following
CityTime
CityTime, you can do the following
Expense
Expense, you can do the following
Overview of Basic Applications
Common Tasks
Creating records
Entering text
Editing records
Edit menu
Copy
Undo
Cut
Paste
Deleting records
Other ways to delete records
Purging records
Exchanging and updating data HotSync operations
Performing a HotSync operation for the first time
HotSync button
Categorizing records
System-defined and user-defined categories
To move a record into a category
To define a new category
To rename a category
Finding records
Looking up Address Book records
Using Find
Using Phone Lookup
Phone Lookup tips
Looking up names to add to expense records
Tap here
Sorting lists of records
Making records private
Hiding private records
Enter your password, and then tap Show
Attaching notes
Choosing fonts
Common Tasks
Application Specific Tasks
Scheduling an event
Tap the time of an event
To schedule an event for another day
Tap a blank area on the screen to deselect the untimed event
Setting an alarm for an event
Rescheduling an event
Scheduling repeating or continuous events
Considerations for repeating or continuous events
Changing the Date Book view
Working in Week View
Tips for using Week View
Working in Month View
Tips for using Month View
Spotting event conflicts
Date Book menus
Record menu Options menu
Chapter
Preferences
Book
Tips for using Week View with Text
Working in Week View with Text
Tips for using Year View
Working in Year View
Working in List View
Tips for using List View
Working with floating events
Tips for using floating events
Tips for using To Do List items
Working with To Do List items
Using the Daily Journal
Using templates
Selecting the default Date Book
Using snooze alarms
Date Book Plus menus
Record menu
Preferences
Display Options
Alarm Preferences
To Do Preferences
Go to Week
Week Preferences
Show Journal. Displays a Daily Journal entry
Month Preferences
Year Preferences
List View Preferences
Book+
Creating an Address Book entry
Selecting types of phone numbers
Next Field
Changing Address Entry details
Record menus
Address Book menus
Options menus
Book
Setting priority
Checking off a To Do List item
Changing To Do List item details
Setting a due date
To Do Show Options
Show Priorities
To Do List menus
Show Due Dates
Categories
To create a new memo
Reviewing memos
Memo Pad menus
Pad
Selecting the Calculator mode
Using the Basic Calculator buttons
Using the Advanced Calculator mode
Displaying Recent Calculations
Primary buttons
Using the Advanced Calculator buttons
Math buttons
Trigonometry buttons
Finance buttons
Logic buttons
Weight/Temp buttons
Statistics buttons
Length buttons
Area buttons
Volume buttons
Creating a custom view
Calculator menus
Program menu
Setting your home city
Selecting remote cities
Adding cities
CityTime menus
Utilities menu
Tap the Applications icon Tap the Expense icon Tap New
Changing the date of an Expense item
Entering receipt details
Customizing the Currency pick list
Defining a custom currency symbol
Distance
Show Options
Sort by
Show currency
Transferring your data to Microsoft Excel
Creating or printing an expense report
Using expense report templates
Chapter
To view your expense data using a Microsoft Excel template
Expense menus
Application Specific Tasks
Communicating Using Your Handheld
Setting up Mail on the desktop
Mail, you can do the following
Files
Default
Synchronize
Desktop
Opening the Mail application on your handheld
Synchronizing Mail with your E-Mail application
Viewing e-mail items
Creating e-mail items
Displaying full header information
To create an e-mail item
Chapter
Looking up an address
Adding details to e-mail items
Setting a priority
Sending a blind carbon copy
Adding a signature to your e-mail item
Editing unsent e-mail
Storing e-mail to be sent later
Requesting confirmations
Draft e-mail
Filing e-mail
Deleting e-mail
Removing e-mail from the Deleted folder
Message List options
Purging deleted e-mail
Folders
Sender
Date column
Sorting the Message List
Subject
All
HotSync options
Send Only
Filter
Creating special filters
Unread
Messages
Ignoring or receiving e-mail
Ignore
Containing
Defining filter strings
High-priority e-mail
Truncating e-mail items
Mail menus
Message menus
Beaming information
To beam an application
Tips on beaming information
Communicating Using Your Handheld
Selecting HotSync setup options
Advanced HotSync Operations
Available only
When Palm
Always available
Desktop software
Serial Port
Speed
Customizing HotSync application settings
Chapter
Conducting a HotSync operation via modem
Preparing your computer
Preparing your handheld
Setup String
Modem
To prepare your handheld for a modem HotSync operation
Selecting the conduits for a modem HotSync operation
Conducting a HotSync operation via a network
Connecting to your company’s dial-in server
Performing a HotSync operation via a modem
To prepare your computer for a network HotSync operation
Using File Link
Creating a user profile
To use a profile for the first-time HotSync operation
Viewing preferences
Preferences screens, you can do the following
Buttons preferences
Pen preferences
Turn Off & Lock
Beam Data
Formats preferences
Digitizer preferences
HotSync buttons preferences
Country default
Time, date, week start, and numbers formats
Auto-off delay
General preferences
System, alarm, and game sounds
Modem preferences
Selecting a service
Network preferences and TCP/IP software
Entering a user name
Entering a password
Adding telephone settings
Entering a prefix
Disabling Call Waiting
Using a calling card
Connecting to your service
Creating additional service templates
Adding detailed information to a service template
Idle timeout
Defining primary and secondary DNS
IP address
Send
Creating a login script
Wait For
Send CR
Deleting a service template
Service menu Options menu
Network preferences menu commands
TCP/IP troubleshooting
Displaying expanded Service Connection Progress messages
Adding a DNS number
Owner preferences
ShortCuts preferences
Creating a ShortCut
Editing a ShortCut
Deleting a ShortCut
Setting Preferences for Your Handheld
Appendix a
Caring for your handheld
Battery considerations
Resetting your handheld
Performing a soft reset
Performing a hard reset
Appendix a
Maintaining Your Handheld
Problem
Software installation problems
Operating problems
Solution
Troubleshooting Tips
Tapping and writing problems
Application problems
HotSync problems
Troubleshooting Tips
Appendix B
Troubleshooting Tips
Beaming problems
Password problems
Problem Solution
Technical support
Troubleshooting Tips
Appendix C
About mapping tables
Customizing existing sample templates
Determining the layout of the Expense Report
Labels
Sections
Analyzing your custom Expense Report
Programming the mapping table
Table with four sections
Creating a Custom Expense Report
Appendix C
Using applications other than Microsoft Excel
Trip
Expense file details
Trips
Expenses
Creating a Custom Expense Report
Use of char
Appendix D
Carriage return and line feed
Literal characters
Warranty Other Product Information
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Warranty and Other Product Information
Handspring, Inc End User Software License Agreement
Warranty and Other Product Information
GNU Library General Public License
Warranty and Other Product Information
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Warranty and Other Product Information
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How to Apply These Terms to Your New Library
FCC Statement
Canadian RFI Statement
Acknowledgments
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