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

3 Managing your applications
Security
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To hide a private record:
1 From within any private record, do one of the following to display the Change
Security dialog box:
• In Applications Launcher, tap the Security icon.
• From within an application, tap the inverted application title tab at the top
of the screen; then tap Security in the Options menu.
• From within any application, drag your pen diagonally across the writing area
of the Graffiti screen from lower left to upper right to bring up the
Command Bar. Tap the padlock icon.
2 Tap the Current Privacy pick list.
3 Tap Hide Records.
4Tap OK.
To hide all private records:
1 In Applications Launcher, tap the Security icon.
2 From the Current Privacy pick list, tap Hide Records.
Illustration suggestion (Delete this suggestion when completed): Security
screen with Hide Record selected
3 Open one of the basic applications (except Expense and Mail). Records marked as
private are not anymore displayed.
NOTE: You can mask or hide records without assigning a password, or you can assign a
password if you want records to remain masked or hidden until a password is entered.
Assigning and editing passwords
You can assign a password to protect your private records and to lock your Acer s10.
Once you define a password, you can change or delete it at any time. You must enter
the current password before you can change or delete it.
If you’ve forgotten your password, you can delete it. Refer to "Recovering from a
forgotten password" on page 43
.
To assign, change, or delete a password:
1 In Applications Launcher, tap the Security icon.
2 Tap the Password box.
3 Enter a password—either the one you want to assign or your current password if you
want to change or delete it—and tap OK.
Illustration suggestion (Delete this suggestion when completed): Show the
password dialog box.
4 Choose from the following options: