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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Connection preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Connection Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Setting modem configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Setting an Infrared to modem connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Date & Time preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Digitizer preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Formats preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Setting default country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Setting time, date, week start, and number display formats . . . . . . . . 277
General preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Setting the Auto-off interval time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Setting your Acer s10 to stay on while in the cradle . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Setting the sounds and volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Setting the LED settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Turning Beam Receive on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Network preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Connecting to your ISP or dial-in service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Customizing service templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Entering DNS numbers and IP addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Creating a login script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Using non-ASCII characters in login scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Plug-in applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Troubleshooting TCP/IP connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Network Preferences menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Owner preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Phone preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Communicating with your mobile phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Setting up related Network preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Setting up related Connection Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Setting up Phone preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
ShortCuts preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
13 Frequently Asked Questions 297
Software installation problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Operating problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Tapping and writing problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Application problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
HotSync problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Beaming problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Recharging problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Password problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Finding version and memory information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Appendix — Creating a custom Expense Report 307
About mapping tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Customizing existing sample templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308