HP Jornada 520 Series Pocket PC Users Guide

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When you turn on your HP Jornada for the first time each day (or after 4 hours 
of inactivity), you will see the Today screen. You can also display it by tapping 
Today on the 
Start menu. The Today screen displays all the important 
information about your day. To customize the information that is displayed, tap 
the Today screen header. 
 
The Today screen 
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Use the HP
 home menu application or the 
Start menu to quickly launch your...

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HP home menu displays two pages of buttons and icons that represent the 
programs and documents on your Pocket PC. To display the second page, 
press the HP home hot key a second time, or tap the HP home menu icon in 
the lower-right corner of the HP home menu screen. 
 The icons displayed on the buttons assigned to the Memory control panel and 
Power control panel change to indicate when storage memory is low or power 
is low.  
 

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Use the Command bar at the bottom of the screen to perform tasks in 
programs. The Command bar includes the menus and buttons for the active 
program, status icons, and the Input panel button. To create a new item in the 
current program, tap 
New.  
To see the name of a button, tap and hold the stylus on the button. Drag the 
stylus off the button so that the command is not carried out. 
 
The Windows for Pocket PC Command bar 

	
When the...

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Use pop-up menus to choose an action for the selected item. For example, 
you can use the pop-up menu in the Contact list to quickly delete a contact, 
make a copy of a contact, or send an e-mail message to a contact. The 
actions on the pop-up menus vary from program to program. To open a pop-
up menu, tap and hold the stylus on the item that you want to perform the 
action on. When the menu appears, lift the stylus, and then tap the action...

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The soft keyboard is an onscreen keyboard displayed at the bottom of the 
screen. Tap a letter on the keyboard to enter that letter, just as if you were 
typing.  



1.  Tap the Input panel icon at the right edge of the Command bar.  
 The icon may look like either a keyboard or a pen, depending on which input 
option you have selected. If 
 is displayed (meaning that the Character 
Recognizer is selected), tap the arrow to...

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The Character Recognizer is an onscreen writing area that interprets the 
strokes of your stylus on the screen into typed letters in the active document. 
You use the stylus to write in the Input panel, just as if you were writing on a 
piece of paper.  



1.  Tap the Input panel icon at the right edge of the Command bar. 
 
 The Input panel icon may look like either a keyboard or a pen, depending on...

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Because certain letters use similar stylus strokes, it may take some practice to 
achieve the writing style for the Character Recognizer. For a table of stylus 
motions and the corresponding letters, see Appendix A, “Character 
recognition.” 
 
 
For a demonstration of proper stylus motions, tap 
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 To select either uppercase or lowercase writing style and set other options for 
the Character Recognizer, tap the arrow next to the Input panel icon and then 
tap...

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• For better recognition, try increasing the zoom level to 300% using the 
Tools menu. 
• Write the letters of a word close together and leave big gaps between 
words, so that it is clear where words begin and end. 
• Hyphenated words, foreign words that use special characters such as 
accents, and some punctuation cannot be converted. 
• If you add writing to a word to change it (such as changing a “3” to an “8”) 
after you attempt to recognize the word,...

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In any program where you can write or draw on the screen, you can also 
quickly capture thoughts, reminders, and phone numbers by recording a voice 
note. In Calendar, Tasks, and Contacts, you can include a recording on the 
Notes tab. In the Notes program, you can either create a standalone recording 
or include a recording in a written note. If you want to include the recording in 
a note, open the note first. 
You can share voice notes with...

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Your HP Jornada supports several formats for voice notes. The formats vary in 
both the quality of the recording and the size of the sound file. When selecting 
a recording format, you should consider the quality you need as well as how 
much storage memory the recording will use on your HP Jornada. 
In addition, not all recording formats are compatible with other software or 
computers. If you will share your recordings with others or...