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

Working with your basic applications
Using Date Book
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Setting alarm options
You can use Preferences to set alarm options, including:
• For the alarm to go off automatically for each new event
• Set a tone for the alarm
• Set the number of times the alarm sounds
To set alarm options:
1 To open the Preferences dialog box, do one of the following:
• In Date Book, tap the Menu icon , open the Options menu, and then tap
Preferences.
• Tap the inverted application title tab at the top of the Date Book screen to
display the menu bar, select Options, then tap Preferences.
• In the text Graffiti area, drag a diagonal line from the lower left to upper
right to display the Command toolbar. Draw an R, the Graffiti shortcut for
the Preferences command.
2 Select from the following options:
Start/End Time Let you set the start and end time for the Date Book view. See
"Changing the displayed Start and End Times" on page 79.
Alarm Preset Let you set an alarm for each new event automatically. The silent
alarm for untimed events is defined by minutes, days, or hours
before midnight of the date of the event.