Chapter 17 Setting Preferences for Your Handheld

■Access the Personal Preferences screens to customize any of the following settings:

Buttons

Assign an application to the Favorites icon. Reassign various

 

applications to the following: the application buttons on the

 

front and side panels of your handheld, the HotSync® button

 

on the cradle/cable, and the full-screen pen stroke command.

Owner

Enter your name, phone number, and other owner information

 

to your handheld.

ShortCuts

Define a list of Graffiti® abbreviations.

■Access the Other Preferences category to customize settings for any third-party applications you installed on your handheld. The Other Preferences category is empty unless you installed a third-party application that includes a Preferences screen.

Setting General Preferences

The General Preferences category enables you to access screens where you can modify Date & Time, Digitizer, Formats, Power, Security, and Sounds & Alerts settings. This section provides details about each of these screens.

To open the General Preferences screens:

1.Tap the Favorites icon .

2.Tap General.

3.Select the name of the Preferences screen you want to view.

TIP You can also select the Preferences category by pressing Left and Right on the navigator, and select a Preferences screen by pressing Up and Down on the navigator.

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