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Page ii Visor Handheld User Guide Contents About This Guide ....................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Your Visor Handheld Getting to know your Visor handheld ...............................................3 What is a Visor handheld? ...............................................................3 System requirements ........................................................................4 Upgrade information ........................................................................5 Visor components .............................................................................6 Installing the batteries ........................................................................10 Tapping and typing ............................................................................11 Tap with the stylus to get things done .........................................11 Elements of the handheld interface ..............................................12 Opening applications .....................................................................13 Using menus ....................................................................................14 Three ways to enter data ................................................................16 Customizing your handheld..............................................................20 Palm Desktop software ..................................................................21 Connecting the cradle .....................................................................22 Using your handheld with Microsoft Outlook (Windows only) ...............................................................................23 Using your handheld with another PIM .....................................23 Installing a Springboard module ..................................................24 Chapter 2: Entering Data in Your Visor Handheld Using Graffiti writing to enter data ..................................................25 Writing Graffiti characters .............................................................25 Graffiti tips .......................................................................................27 The Graffiti alphabet .......................................................................28 Writing capital letters .....................................................................29 Writing numbers .............................................................................29 Graffiti numbers ..............................................................................30 Writing punctuation marks ...........................................................30 Writing symbols and extended characters ..................................31 Writing accented characters ..........................................................32 Accent strokes ..................................................................................32 Additional non-English characters ...............................................32 Navigation strokes ..........................................................................33 Graffiti ShortCuts ............................................................................33 Using the onscreen keyboard ...........................................................34 Using your computer keyboard ........................................................35 Importing data .....................................................................................35 Contents Page iii Chapter 3: Managing Your Applications Using the Applications Launcher..................................................... 37 Selecting applications ..................................................................... 37 Switching between applications ................................................... 37 Categorizing applications .............................................................. 37 Changing the Applications Launcher display ............................ 38 Choosing preferences......................................................................... 39 Installing and removing applications .............................................. 40 Installing add-on applications ...................................................... 40 Installing games .............................................................................. 42 Removing applications .................................................................. 43 Removing Palm Desktop software ............................................... 43 Security................................................................................................. 44 Assigning a password .................................................................... 44 Changing or deleting a password ................................................45 Locking your handheld .................................................................45 Recovering from a forgotten password ....................................... 46 Chapter 4: Overview of Basic Applications Date Book ............................................................................................. 48 Date Book Plus ....................................................................................49 Address Book ...................................................................................... 50 To Do List............................................................................................. 51 Memo Pad............................................................................................ 52 Calculator............................................................................................. 53 CityTime............................................................................................... 54 Expense................................................................................................. 55 Chapter 5: Common Tasks Creating records..................................................................................57 Editing records ....................................................................................58 Entering text ....................................................................................58 Edit menu .........................................................................................58 Deleting records ..................................................................................60 Other ways to delete records ........................................................ 60 Purging records................................................................................... 61 Exchanging and updating data: HotSync operations.................... 62 Performing a HotSync operation for the first time .................... 62 Categorizing records .......................................................................... 64 System-defined and user-defined categories ............................. 64 Finding records ................................................................................... 68 Looking up Address Book records .............................................. 68 Using Find ....................................................................................... 69 Using Phone Lookup ...................................................................... 70 Page iv Visor Handheld User Guide Sorting lists of records ........................................................................73 Making records private ......................................................................74 Hiding private records ...................................................................74 Attaching notes....................................................................................76 Choosing fonts .....................................................................................77 Chapter 6: Application Specific Tasks Date Book 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