Operation Manual

Chapter 1: Getting Started with the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition 11
Busy Indicator
Display Cursors
In most cases, the appearance of the cursor indicates what will happen when you press the next key or
select the next menu item to be pasted as a character.
Note: The second cursor and alpha cursor may appear on the status bar, depending on the context.
If you press ƒ during an insertion, the cursor becomes an underlined
A (A). If you press y during an
insertion, the underlined cursors becomes an underlined # (#
).
Note: If you highlight a small character such as a colon or a comma and then press ƒ or y, the
cursor does not change because the cursor width is too narrow.
Graphs and editors sometimes display additional cursors, which are described in the guidebook.
Setting Modes
Checking Mode Settings
Mode settings control how the TI-84 Plus C displays and interprets numbers and graphs. Mode settings
are retained by the Constant Memory™ feature when the TI-84 Plus C is turned off. All numbers,
including elements of matrices and lists, are displayed according to the current mode settings.
To display the mode settings, press z. The current settings are highlighted. Defaults are highlighted
below. The following pages describe the mode settings in detail.
Cursor Appearance Effect of Next Keystroke
Entry Solid rectangle
$
A character is entered at the
cursor; any existing
character is overwritten.
Insert Underline
__
A character is inserted in
front of the cursor location.
Second Reverse arrow
Þ
A 2nd character is entered
or a 2nd operation is
executed.
Alpha Reverse A
Ø
An alpha character is
entered,
SOLVE is executed,
or shortcut menus are
displayed.
Full Checkerboard rectangle
#
No entry; the maximum
characters are entered at a
prompt or memory is full.
Also indicates the limit of
the allowed MathPrint™
mode levels.
MathPrint™ Right arrow The cursor moves to either
the next part of the
template or out of the
template. Press the right
arrow to move out of all
MathPrint™ templates
before entering the
remaining terms in an
expression.