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65Agenda

Entry symbolsEntry symbols

Entry symbols

You can group entries together using “entry symbols”. An entry

symbol is a letter you can use to identify particular entries, for

example, M for meetings. The entry symbol can also be used to

show entries in the Year planner.

Birthdays and anniversariesBirthdays and anniversaries

Birthdays and anniversaries

1. Move to the Anniversary view and just start typing, or select

the command for creating a new anniversary entry from the

Entry menu in any view.

2. Type in the details of the anniversary, e.g. ‘Jane’s birthday’

and set the day and month of the anniversary.

3. Press the Alarm/More button if you wish to specify other

details about the anniversary, e.g. the start year and

whether you want to see the start year (e.g. a person’s year

of birth) and/or the number of years since the start year

(e.g. their age).

Anniversaries are marked with a candle symbol ( ).

eminders for entries - alarmseminders for entries - alarms

eminders for entries - alarms

To set an alarm for an Agenda entry:

1. Move the cursor to the entry.

2. Set the alarm using the command from the Entry menu.

You can also set an alarm while adding an entry, by pressing

the Alarm/More button in the New entry dialog and then

moving to the Alarm page.

3. Set the amount of warning that you want, or the time at

which you want the alarm, and the alarm sound you want.

Initially you will see the list of standard alarm sounds, but you can

add your own sounds for alarms using the Record program. See

the ‘Customising your netBook’ chapter for more details.

Entries which have alarms are marked with a bell symbol (

• To remove an alarm, select the Set alarm command from

the Entry menu and remove the tick from the alarm box.