Macintosh Edition
Table Of Contents
- Visor™ Handheld User Guide
- Macintosh Edition
- Contents
- About This Guide
- Introduction to Your Visor™ Handheld
- Getting to know your handheld
- Installing the batteries
- 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
- Other Product Information
- Index
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Customizing your handheld
You can customize your handheld by using the Preferences
application. You can enter personal information such as your name
and address; change the time and date; view different date and time
formats when you travel; turn off sounds; and configure your
handheld to work with a modem or network. See Chapter 9 for more
information on customizing your handheld.
To open the Preferences screens:
1. Tap the Applications icon .
2. Tap the Preferences icon .
3. Tap the category pick list in the upper-right corner of the screen.
4. Tap the Preferences category you want to view.
The following procedures for setting the time and date give you an
example of how to customize your handheld. You make changes to
the time and date in General preferences.
To set the current time:
1. Tap the Set Time box.
2. Tap the up or down arrows to change the hour.
3. Tap each minute number, and then tap the arrows to change them.
4. Tap AM or PM.
Note:
Your handheld can also display time based on a 24-hour
clock. See “Formats preferences” in Chapter 9 for more
information.
5. Tap OK.
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