User's Manual

Chapter 8 Using Date Book
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Setting an alarm for an event
The Alarm setting enables you to set an alarm for events in your Date Book. You
can set an alarm to notify you minutes, hours, or days before an event. The default
Alarm setting is five minutes before the time of the event, but you can change the
Alarm to any number of minutes, hours, or days.
When you set an alarm, this icon appears to the far right of the event with the
alarm. When the alarm occurs, a reminder message also appears onscreen.
To set an alarm for an event:
1. Select the event to which you want to assign an alarm.
2. Tap Details.
3. Tap the Alarm check box to select it.
The default setting, 5 Minutes, appears.
4. Tap the pick list to select Minutes, Hours, or Days.
5. Select the 5 and enter any number from 0 to 99 (inclusive) as the number of time
units.
6. Press Function + Enter , or tap OK.
7. When the reminder message appears on screen, do one of the following:
– Press Function + Enter
, or tap OK, to permanently dismiss the
reminder and return to the current screen.
– Tap Snooze to dismiss the reminder and return to the current screen. The
reminder message appears again five minutes after you tap Snooze, and
meanwhile an attention indicator blinks in the upper-left corner of the screen
to remind you of the pending alarm.
Tap here to
select unit of time
Enter number of
time units here
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