Contents

Removing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5

Charging the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6

Preserving Battery Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7

Changing the Backlight Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7

Manually Monitoring the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8

4 Learning the Basics

Using the Today Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–1 Navigation Bar and Command Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2 Status Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–3Pop-Up Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–4 Creating information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–5 Customizing the Today Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–6

Using Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8 Opening Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8 Minimizing Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8 Closing Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9 Installing Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–10 Using iPAQ Image Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–10 Backing Up Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–17 Using iPAQ File Store Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18

5 Learning Input Methods

Changing Word Suggestion Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2 Using the On-Screen Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4 Writing with the Stylus and the Letter Recognizer . . . . . 5–5 Writing with the Stylus and Microsoft Transcriber . . . . . 5–7 Writing with the Stylus and Block Recognizer . . . . . . . . 5–8 Drawing and Writing on the Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9

Converting Writing to Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9

6 Expansion Cards

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2 Removing a Secure Digital (SD) Expansion Card . . . . . . 6–3

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