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
2 Entering data in your Acer s10
Importing data
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applications on your Acer s10 are also available in your Palm Desktop software and in
most PIMs so you need not learn different applications.
Refer to page 253 for more information on HotSync procedures.
Importing data
If you have data stored in computer applications such as spreadsheets and databases,
or if you want to import data from another device, you can transfer the data to your
Acer s10 without having to key it in manually. Save the data in one of the file formats
listed below, import it into the Palm Desktop software, and then perform a HotSync
operation to transfer the data to your Acer s10. Refer to page 253 for more
information on HotSync procedures.
Palm Desktop software can import data from any of the following applications when
you export the data in the appropriate file format.
• Comma delimited (.csv, .txt): Address Book and Memo Pad only
• Tab delimited (.tab, .tsv, .txt): Address Book and Memo Pad only
• CSV (Lotus Organizer 2.x/97 Mapping): Address Book only
• vCal (.vcs): Date Book only
• vCard (.vcf): Address Book only
• Date Book archive (.dba)
• Address Book archive (.aba)
• To Do List archive (.tda)
• Memo Pad archive (.mpa)
NOTE: Archive formats can only be used with Palm Desktop software. Use the archive file
formats to share information with other people who use devices based on the Palm
Computing
®
platform or to create a copy of your important Palm Desktop information.
To import data:
1 Open the Palm Desktop software.
2 Click the application into which you want to import data.
3 If you are importing records that contain a field with category names, do the
following:
a. Select All in the Category box.
b. Make sure that the same categories that appear in the imported file also exist in
the application. If the categories do not exist, create them now; otherwise, the
records will be imported into the Unfiled category.
4 Choose File > Import.
5 Select the file you want to import.
6 Click Open.
7 To import data into the correct Palm Desktop fields, drag fields in the left-hand
column so that they are opposite the corresponding imported field on the right.
To exclude a field from being imported, deselect the field’s check box.