Chapter 8 Using Date Book92Setting an alarm for an eventThe Alarm setting enables you to set an alarm for events in your Date Book. Youcan set an alarm to notify you minutes, hours, or days before an event. The defaultAlarm setting is five minutes before the time of the event, but you can change theAlarm to any number of minutes, hours, or days.When you set an alarm, this icon appears to the far right of the event with thealarm. When the alarm occurs, a reminder message also appears onscreen.To set an alarm for an event:1. Select the event to which you want to assign an alarm.2. Tap Details.3. Tap the Alarm check box to select it.The default setting, 5 Minutes, appears.4. Tap the pick list to select Minutes, Hours, or Days.5. Select the 5 and enter any number from 0 to 99 (inclusive) as the number of timeunits.6. Press Function + Enter , or tap OK.7. When the reminder message appears on screen, do one of the following:– Press Function + Enter , or tap OK, to permanently dismiss thereminder and return to the current screen.– Tap Snooze to dismiss the reminder and return to the current screen. Thereminder message appears again five minutes after you tap Snooze, andmeanwhile an attention indicator blinks in the upper-left corner of the screento remind you of the pending alarm.Tap here toselect unit of timeEnter number oftime units here
