Handbook for the Palm III™ Organizer Copyright Copyright © 1998 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. 3Com, the 3Com logo, Palm Computing, Palm Modem, Graffiti, and HotSync are registered trade- marks, and PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm OS, Palm, the Palm Computing Platform logo, the Palm III logo, and the HotSync logo are trademarks of Palm Computing, Inc., 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 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If you do not have access to a CD-ROM drive for your computer, you may download the Palm Desktop software from http://www.palm.com. Alternatively, you can order 3.5" diskettes by completing and mailing the diskette order card supplied in the Palm III™ organizer product package, or call to order the diskettes. See the Worldwide Customer Support card for the appro- priate phone number. P/N: 405-0448A A/N: 423-0241 Page ii Handbook for the Palm III™ Organizer Contents About This Book ......................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Your Palm III™ Organizer Getting to know your Palm III organizer ..........................................3 What is a Palm III organizer? ..........................................................3 System requirements ........................................................................4 Upgrade information ........................................................................4 Palm III components .........................................................................5 Installing the batteries ..........................................................................9 Tapping and typing ............................................................................10 Tap with the stylus to get things done .........................................10 Elements of the organizer interface ..............................................11 Opening applications .....................................................................12 Using menus ....................................................................................13 Three ways to enter data ................................................................15 Customizing your organizer..............................................................19 Palm Desktop organizer software ................................................20 Connecting the cradle .....................................................................21 Using your organizer with another PIM .....................................22 Chapter 2: Entering Data in Your Palm III™ Organizer Using Graffiti writing to enter data ..................................................23 Writing Graffiti characters .............................................................23 Graffiti tips .......................................................................................25 The Graffiti alphabet .......................................................................26 Writing capital letters .....................................................................27 Writing numbers .............................................................................27 Graffiti numbers ..............................................................................28 Writing punctuation marks ...........................................................28 Writing symbols and extended characters ..................................29 Writing accented characters ..........................................................30 Accent strokes ..................................................................................30 Additional non-English characters ...............................................30 Navigation strokes ..........................................................................31 Graffiti ShortCuts ............................................................................31 Using the onscreen keyboard ............................................................33 Using your computer keyboard ........................................................33 Importing data .....................................................................................34 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 organizer .................................................................45 Recovering from a forgotten password ....................................... 46 Chapter 4: Using Your Basic Applications Overview of basic applications......................................................... 48 Date Book .........................................................................................48 Address Book ..................................................................................49 To Do List .........................................................................................50 Memo Pad ........................................................................................ 51 Calculator .........................................................................................51 Expense ............................................................................................ 52 Common tasks..................................................................................... 53 Creating records .............................................................................. 53 Editing records ................................................................................ 53 Deleting records .............................................................................. 55 Purging records ............................................................................... 56 Exchanging and updating data: HotSync operations ............... 56 Categorizing records ...................................................................... 59 Finding records ............................................................................... 62 Sorting lists of records .................................................................... 66 Making records private .................................................................. 67 Attaching notes ............................................................................... 69 Choosing fonts ................................................................................ 70 Application-specific tasks.................................................................. 71 Date Book .........................................................................................71 Address Book ..................................................................................84 To Do List .........................................................................................89 Memo Pad ........................................................................................ 94 Page iv Handbook for the Palm III™ Organizer Calculator .........................................................................................97 Expense .............................................................................................99 Chapter 5: Communicating Using Your Organizer Managing desktop E-Mail away from your desk.........................109 Setting up Mail on the desktop ...................................................110 Synchronizing Mail with your E-Mail application ..................112 Opening the Mail