HTC myTouch 3G Slide, MyTouch3GBLKTMB manual Extended Home screen, Navigating the Home screen

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Home screen

The items that you will see on your Home screen depends on the that items that you have chosen to include when you first set up the phone. Your Home screen may include shortcuts and widgets. Tap the respective item to open the associated application.

The Home screen also lets you add more items to the Home screen. Add items like application icons, shortcuts, folders, and widgets to give you instant access to information and applications that you use most often. To learn how to personalize your Home screen, see the Personalizing chapter.

Extended Home screen

The Home screen extends beyond the screen width to provide more space for adding icons, widgets, and more. There are 4 “additional” screens apart from the main Home screen.

You can choose to add 2 more screens to your Home screen for a total of 7 screens. To add 2 more screens, press HOME > MENU, tap Settings > Personalize, and then select the Home screen pages check box. However, if you want to revert back to the default number of screens, you need to perform a factory data reset. To learn how to perform a factory data reset, see "Performing a hard/factory reset."

Navigating the Home screen

You can go to the extended Home screen by sliding your finger horizontally across the screen to go to the left or right side of the Home screen. While on an extended Home screen, press HOME to return to the main Home screen.

Directly going to a particular screen using Leap view

1.On any Home screen, pinch the screen to show the Leap view that shows all 5 (or 7) screens as thumbnails.

On the main (center) Home screen, you can also press HOME to show the Leap view.

2. Tap the screen you want to open.