Getting Startedwith thePalm VII™Organizer

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Palm VII Getting Started

About This Book

Getting to know your Palm VII handheld

System requirements

Palm VII components

Installing the batteries

Setting up your handheld and charging the transmitter

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Using your handheld with another PIM

Tapping and typing

Elements of the interface

Opening applications

Using menus

Four ways to enter data

Customizing your handheld

Using Graffiti writing to enter data

Graffiti tips

Writing capital letters

Graffiti numbers

Additional Graffiti punctuation

Writing accented characters

Navigation strokes

Using the onscreen keyboard

Using your computer keyboard

Using the Applications Launcher

Changing the Applications Launcher display

Choosing preferences

Installing and removing applications

Installing games

Removing applications

Removing Palm Desktop software

Changing or deleting a password

Locking your handheld

Recovering from a forgotten password

Overview of basic applications

Address Book

Memo Pad

Expense

Common tasks

Deleting records

Purging records

Exchanging and updating data: HotSync operations

Categorizing records

Finding records

Sorting lists of records

Making records private

Attaching notes

Choosing fonts

Application-specific tasks

Calculator

Your handheld is a wireless device

Wireless Internet messaging: the iMessenger application

Improving signal strength

Using web clipping applications

Working with web clipping applications

Web clipping application menus

Using the iMessenger application

Checking for and viewing messages

Opening and reading messages

Creating messages

Rerouting replies to your messages

Adding a signature to your message

Sending messages

Editing an unsent message

Draft messages

Filing a message

Removing a message from the Deleted folder

Your Palm.Net mailbox

The iMessenger application and HotSync operations

iMessenger menus

Managing desktop E-Mail away from your desk

Setting up Mail on the desktop

Synchronizing Mail with your E-Mail application

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

Purging deleted e-mail

HotSync options

Creating special filters

Truncating e-mail items

Beaming information

Selecting HotSync setup options

Customizing HotSync application settings

IR HotSync operations

Configuring HotSync Manager for infrared communication

Performing an IR HotSync operation

Conducting a HotSync operation via modem

Preparing your handheld

Getting to know your Palm VII organizer

Setting up your organizer and charging the transmitter

Using your organizer with another PIM

Elements of the organizer interface

Three ways to enter data

Customizing your organizer

The Graffiti alphabet

Importing data

Security

Your organizer is a wireless device

Using query applications

Opening query applications

Working with query applications

Query application menus

Deleting messages

Options for the iMessenger List screen

Deleting e-mail

HotSync operations via a modem

Preparing your organizer

Selecting the conduits for a modem HotSync operation

Performing a HotSync operation via a modem

3C80500U - VII - OS 3.2 16 MHz


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