User Guide
Table Of Contents
- User Guide for the Tungsten™ E2 Handheld
- Table of Contents
- About This Guide
- Setting Up Your Handheld and Your Computer
- Your Handheld
- Moving Around in Applications
- Entering Information on Your Handheld
- How can I enter information on my handheld?
- Entering information with Graffiti® 2 writing
- Writing in the Graffiti 2 input area
- Using full-screen writing
- Writing Graffiti 2 characters
- Keys to success with Graffiti 2 writing
- Graffiti 2 alphabet
- Graffiti 2 numbers
- Graffiti 2 gestures
- Writing Graffiti 2 symbols and other special characters
- Graffiti 2 symbols and special characters
- Writing Graffiti 2 ShortCuts
- Graffiti 2 ShortCuts
- Entering information with the onscreen keyboard
- Entering info from Contacts into another application
- Editing information
- Related topics
- Moving Info Between Your Handheld and Your Computer
- Why synchronize information?
- Synchronizing with your computer
- Synchronizing over a network
- Customizing your synchronization settings
- Using Quick Install and the Send To Handheld droplet
- Entering information with your computer
- Importing information from other applications
- Installing the additional software from the CD
- Removing applications
- Related topics
- Managing Your Contacts
- Managing Your Calendar
- Managing Your Office Files
- Viewing Photos and Videos
- Listening to Music
- Managing Your Tasks
- Writing Memos
- Writing Notes in Note Pad
- Making Bluetooth Wireless Connections
- What can I do with the built-in Bluetooth® wireless technology?
- Entering basic Bluetooth settings
- Setting up a Bluetooth phone connection
- Accessing email and the web with Bluetooth
- Setting up a connection for Bluetooth synchronization
- Setting up a connection to a Bluetooth network
- Creating trusted devices
- Setting advanced Bluetooth features
- Related topics
- Sending and Receiving Email Messages
- Upgrading an existing email account
- About email accounts
- Creating an account
- Managing email accounts
- Getting and reading email
- Switching among email accounts
- Getting email messages
- Auto get mail with notification
- Scheduling auto get mail
- Auto get notifications
- Setting notification options
- Viewing and using the Reminders screen
- Auto get mail retries
- Resource issues with auto get mail
- Inbox icons in the VersaMail application
- Reading email messages
- Selecting whether to receive messages as HTML or plain text
- Customizing the font of messages you are reading
- Sending an email message
- Working with email folders
- Working with email messages
- Working with attachments
- Synchronizing email on your handheld with email on your computer
- Setting up an account on your handheld
- Enabling synchronization on your computer
- Setting synchronization options for your email account
- Setting mail client synchronization options
- Setting Microsoft Outlook as your default email program
- Setting advanced email synchronization options
- Account information screens
- VersaMail conduit shortcuts
- Excluding one or more accounts during synchronization
- Synchronizing an account
- Synchronizing multiple accounts
- Using SSL with the conduit
- Advanced VersaMail application features
- Setting preferences for getting, sending, and deleting email
- Adding or updating a contact directly from a message
- Creating and using filters
- Turning filters on and off
- Editing or deleting a filter
- Managing settings for incoming and outgoing mail
- Adding APOP to an account
- Setting advanced account preferences
- Changing email header details
- Backing up mail databases
- Synchronizing IMAP mail folders wirelessly
- Prerequisites for wireless IMAP folder synchronization
- Turning IMAP folder synchronization on or off
- Synchronizing handheld/mail server IMAP folders from the Options menu
- Working with root folders
- Using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Related topics
- Sending and Receiving Text Messages
- Browsing the Web
- Accessing a web page
- Quickly jumping to a page
- Changing how you view a page
- Bookmarking your favorite pages
- Disconnecting from and connecting to the Internet
- Downloading files and pages
- Communicating with other users
- Returning to a web page you recently visited
- Changing your home and start pages
- Setting advanced browser options
- Related topics
- Dialing Phone Numbers from Your Handheld
- Sharing Information
- Managing Your Expenses
- Performing Calculations
- Keeping Your Information Private
- Using Categories to Organize Information
- Managing Clock Settings
- Customizing Your Handheld
- Customizing Favorites View
- Customizing Applications View
- Making the screen easier to read
- Assigning a button to your frequently used applications
- Setting the date and time
- Customizing the way you enter information
- Selecting sound settings
- Entering your owner information
- Conserving battery power
- Connecting your handheld to other devices
- Customizing network settings
- Setting up a VPN
- Related topics
- Expanding Your Handheld
- What type of expansion cards can I use?
- How can expansion cards help me?
- Removing an expansion card
- Inserting an expansion card
- Opening an application on an expansion card
- Opening files on an expansion card
- Viewing card information
- Renaming a card
- Copying applications to an expansion card
- Removing all information from a card
- Related topics
- Maintaining Your Handheld
- Common Questions
- Getting Help
- Product Regulatory Information
- Index
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CHAPTER 5 Moving Info Between Your Handheld and Your Computer
Importing information from other applications
Do you have information on your computer in spreadsheets or databases and want to transfer it to
your handheld? Don’t spend time retyping it. Instead, import the info into Palm Desktop software.
Palm Desktop software can import the following types of files:
Calendar vCal/iCal (VCS/ICS) and Calendar archive (DBA)
Contacts vCard (VCF), Contacts archive (ABA)
Memos Memos archive (MPA), Text (TXT)
Ta s k s Tasks archive (TDA)
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1 Save the file on your computer in one of the accepted formats.
2 Import the file into Palm Desktop software:
a. Double-click the Palm Desktop icon on your computer desktop.
b. Click the icon in the launch bar for the application you want to import the
information into.
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Tip
Palm Desktop Help has
lots of information about
importing from other
applications, including
step-by-step instructions.
Open the Help menu in
Palm Desktop software
and select Palm Desktop
Help for more details.