Macintosh Edition
Table Of Contents
- Visor™ Edge Handheld User Guide
- Macintosh Edition
- Contents
- About This Guide
- Introduction to Your Visor™ Edge Handheld
- Getting to know your handheld
- Charging the battery
- Tapping and typing
- Customizing your handheld
- Entering Data in Your Handheld
- Using Graffiti writing to enter data
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Using your computer keyboard
- Importing data
- Using an external keyboard
- Managing Your Applications
- Overview of Basic Applications
- Common Tasks
- Application Specific Tasks
- Date Book
- Date Book Plus
- Address
- To Do List
- Memo Pad
- Calculator
- CityTime
- Expense
- Communicating Using Your Handheld
- Managing desktop E-Mail away from your desk
- In Mail, you can do the following:
- Setting up Mail on the desktop
- Synchronizing Mail with your E-Mail application
- Opening the Mail application on your handheld
- Viewing e-mail items
- Creating e-mail items
- Looking up an address
- Adding details to e-mail items
- Storing e-mail to be sent later
- Editing unsent e-mail
- Draft e-mail
- Filing e-mail
- Deleting e-mail
- Removing e-mail from the Deleted folder
- Purging deleted e-mail
- Message list options
- HotSync options
- Creating special filters
- Truncating e-mail items
- Mail menus
- Beaming information
- Managing desktop E-Mail away from your desk
- Advanced HotSync® Operations
- Selecting HotSync setup options
- Customizing HotSync application settings
- IR HotSync operations
- Conducting a HotSync operation via modem
- Creating a user profile
- Setting Preferences for Your Handheld
- In the Preferences screens, you can do the following:
- Viewing preferences
- Buttons preferences
- Connection preferences
- Digitizer preferences
- Formats preferences
- General preferences
- Network preferences and TCP/IP software
- Selecting a service
- Entering a user name
- Entering a password
- Selecting a connection
- Adding telephone settings
- Connecting to your service
- Creating additional service templates
- Adding detailed information to a service template
- Creating a login script
- Deleting a service template
- Network preferences menu commands
- TCP/IP troubleshooting
- Owner preferences
- ShortCuts preferences
- Maintaining Your Handheld
- Troubleshooting Tips
- Non-ASCII Characters for Login Scripts
- Warranty and Other Product Information
- Index
Page 6 Introduction to Your Visor™ Edge Handheld
Visor Edge components
Locating front panel controls
Stylus and
Stylus
release
Serves as the writing instrument used to enter data in
your handheld. To use the stylus, press the stylus
release, slide the stylus out of the slot, and hold it as you
would a pen or pencil.
Handheld
screen
Displays the applications and information stored in your
handheld. It is touch-sensitive and responds to the
stylus.
Graffiti
writing
area
The area where you write letters and numbers using the
Graffiti alphabet. See Chapter 2 to learn how to write
Graffiti characters.
Power
button and
backlight
control
Turns your handheld on or off and controls the backlight
feature. If your handheld is turned off, pressing the
power button turns the unit on and returns you to the
last screen you viewed.
If your handheld is turned on, pressing the power button
turns the unit off. Holding the power button down for
about two seconds turns the backlight on or off.
Screen
Graffiti
®
writing are
a
Application
buttons
Scroll buttons
Power button and
backlight control
Microphone
LED
IR port
Contrast control
S
ty
l
us
Stylus
release