Handspring Treo 180 Communicator User Guide

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Date Book Plus
When you open Date Book Plus, the screen shows the current date and a list of times for a normal 
business day. 
Working in Day View
Day View shows an hourly calendar for a particular date. If there are events scheduled on that 
date, they appear in the appropriate time slot.
To view or select a date, do one of the following: 
nUse the scroll buttons or roll the jog rocker to move forward or backward one day at a time.
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You can also schedule events that occur on a particular date but have no specific start or end 
times, such as birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries. These are referred to as “untimed events.” 
Untimed events appear at the top of the list of times, marked with a diamond. You can have more 
than one untimed event on a particular date.
You can also schedule a repeating event, such as a weekly meeting, and continuous events, such 
as a three-day conference or a...

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4. Hold Option   and press Return   so that no start or end times are defined for the new 
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5. Enter a description of the event.
6. Tap a blank area on the screen to deselect the untimed event.
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Setting an alarm for an event
The Alarm setting enables you to set an audible alarm for events in Date Book Plus. You can set 
an alarm to sound minutes, hours, or days before an event. The default Alarm setting is 5 minutes 
before the time of the event, but you can change this 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 tone sounds, a reminder message also appears...

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Scheduling repeating or continuous events
The Repeat function lets you schedule events that recur at regular intervals or extend over a 
period of consecutive days. A birthday is a good example of an event that repeats annually. 
Another example is a weekly guitar lesson that falls on the same day of the week and the same 
time of day. 
Typically, a continuous event is an untimed event such as a business trip or a vacation that 
continues for several days but doesn’t occur at a...

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Changing and deleting repeating or continuous events
If you change or delete a repeating or continuous event you can apply the action to only the 
current event, to all instances of the event, or to the current event and instances that follow. 
To change or delete repeating events:
1. Select the record you want to change or delete.
2. Tap Details.
3. Enter the change.
4.  Hold Option   and press Return   to accept the change, or tap Delete.
5. Tap one of the...

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Changing the Date Book Plus view
In addition to displaying the calendar for a specific day, you can also display a whole week in 
graph or text format, a month, a year, or a list of your appointments, as well as the current time. 
To cycle through Day, Week, Week with Text, Month, Year, and List views:
nRepeatedly press Date Book Plus   to display the next view.
To display the current time:
1. Tap and hold the stylus on the date in the date bar to display the current time.
2. Drag the...

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nThe Week View shows the time span defined by the Start Time and End Time in the Date 
Book Plus Preferences settings. If you have an event before or after this time span, a bar 
appears at the top or bottom of that days column. Use the onscreen scroll arrows   to scroll 
to the event.
Working in Week View with Text
The Week View with Text shows an entire week with a description of each scheduled event. This 
view can display one or two weeks at a time and can include...

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Working in Month View
The Month View screen shows which days have events scheduled. Dots and lines in the Month 
View indicate events, repeating events, and untimed events.
 
You can control the dots and lines that appear in the Month View. See page 114 for details.
Tips for using Month View
Keep the following points in mind:
nTap a day in the Month View to display that day in the Day View.
nUse the scroll buttons or jog rocker to move between months. You can also tap the scroll 
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Tips for using Year View
Keep the following points in mind:
nTap a day to display the date and events for that day in the title bar. A minus sign indicates 
only one event is scheduled on that day. A plus sign indicates multiple events are scheduled 
on that day.
nUse the scroll buttons or jog rocker to move between days. You can also tap the scroll arrows 
in the lower-right corner to move forward or backward a day. 
nTap the scroll arrows in the upper-right corner to...