handheld PDA Manual s10
Table Of Contents
- About this Manual
- First things first
- Contents
- 1 Getting started
- 2 Entering data in your Acer s10
- 3 Managing your applications
- 4 Working with your basic applications
- Overview of basic applications
- Date Book
- Address Book
- To Do List
- Memo Pad
- Calculator
- Expense
- Common applications tasks
- Creating records
- Editing records
- Deleting records
- Purging records
- Categorizing records
- Finding records
- Sorting records
- Making records private
- Attaching notes
- Choosing fonts
- Getting information on an application
- Application-specific tasks
- Using Date Book
- Using Address Book
- Using To Do List
- Using Memo Pad
- Using Calculator
- Using Expense
- Creating an Expense item
- Changing the date of an Expense item
- Entering receipt details
- Adding attendees’ names to an Expense item
- Filling in the expense type automatically
- Changing the Expense List display
- Changing the currency and symbols display
- Customizing currency symbols
- Transferring your data to Microsoft Excel
- Using expense report templates
- Expense menus
- 5 Working with your supplementary applications
- 6 Working with your PC-end utilities
- 7 Using expansion features
- 8 Using the Attention Manager
- 9 Managing your desktop email
- 10 Beaming information
- 11 Exchanging and updating data using HotSync operations
- 12 Setting preferences for your Acer s10
- 13 Frequently Asked Questions
- Appendix — Creating a custom Expense Report
- Index
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The Graffiti non-English characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Graffiti navigation strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using Graffiti ShortCuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Graffiti tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the onscreen keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using an external keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Importing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
To import data: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Beaming data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3 Managing your applications 35
Using the Applications Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
To open an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Switching between applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Categorizing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the Applications Launcher display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting preferences for applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Assigning applications to buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Installing and removing applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
To install add-on applications on your Acer s10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
To remove an add-on application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Removing the Palm Desktop software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Assigning and editing passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Locking your Acer s10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Recovering from a forgotten password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Displaying private records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4 Working with your basic applications 45
Overview of basic applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Date Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
To Do List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Memo Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Common applications tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Editing records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Selecting text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Using the Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Deleting records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Purging records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Categorizing records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Finding records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Finding Address Book records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59