Palmone III Personal Handheld Organizer Handbook
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Page ii Handbook for the Palm III™ Organizer Copyright Copyright © 1998 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. 3Com, the 3Com logo, Palm Computing, Palm Modem, Graffiti, and HotSync are registered trade- marks, and PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm OS, Palm, the Palm Computing Platform logo, the Palm III logo, and the HotSync logo are trademarks of Palm Computing, Inc., 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability 3Com Corporation and its subsidiaries assume no responsibility for any damage or loss resulting from the use of this handbook. 3Com Corporation and its subsidiaries assume no responsibility for any loss or claims by third parties which may arise through the use of this software. 3Com Corporation and its subsidiaries assume no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by deletion of data as a result of malfunction, dead battery, or repairs. Be sure to make backup cop- ies of all important data on other media to protect against data loss. Important: Please read the 3Com End User Software License Agreement contained in this handbook before using the accompanying software program(s). Using any part of the software indicates that you accept the terms of the 3Com End User Software License Agreement. 3.5 Software Diskettes Available Palm™ Desktop software is supplied on a CD-ROM disc. If you do not have access to a CD-ROM drive for your computer, you may download the Palm Desktop software from http://www.palm.com. Alternatively, you can order 3.5 diskettes by completing and mailing the diskette order card supplied in the Palm III™ organizer product package, or call to order the diskettes. See the Worldwide Customer Support card for the appro- priate phone number. P/N: 405-0448A A/N: 423-0241
Contents Page iii Contents About This Book ......................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Your Palm III™ Organizer Getting to know your Palm III organizer ..........................................3 What is a Palm III organizer? ..........................................................3 System requirements ........................................................................4 Upgrade information ........................................................................4 Palm III components .........................................................................5 Installing the batteries ..........................................................................9 Tapping and typing ............................................................................10 Tap with the stylus to get things done .........................................10 Elements of the organizer interface ..............................................11 Opening applications .....................................................................12 Using menus ....................................................................................13 Three ways to enter data ................................................................15 Customizing your organizer..............................................................19 Palm Desktop organizer software ................................................20 Connecting the cradle .....................................................................21 Using your organizer with another PIM .....................................22 Chapter 2: Entering Data in Your Palm III™ Organizer Using Graffiti writing to enter data ..................................................23 Writing Graffiti characters .............................................................23 Graffiti tips .......................................................................................25 The Graffiti alphabet .......................................................................26 Writing capital letters .....................................................................27 Writing numbers .............................................................................27 Graffiti numbers ..............................................................................28 Writing punctuation marks ...........................................................28 Writing symbols and extended characters ..................................29 Writing accented characters ..........................................................30 Accent strokes ..................................................................................30 Additional non-English characters ...............................................30 Navigation strokes ..........................................................................31 Graffiti ShortCuts ............................................................................31 Using the onscreen keyboard ............................................................33 Using your computer keyboard ........................................................33 Importing data .....................................................................................34
Page iv Handbook for the Palm III™ Organizer Chapter 3: Managing Your Applications Using the Applications Launcher..................................................... 37 Selecting applications ..................................................................... 37 Switching between applications ................................................... 37 Categorizing applications .............................................................. 37 Changing the Applications Launcher display ............................ 38 Choosing preferences ......................................................................... 39 Installing and removing applications .............................................. 40 Installing add-on applications ...................................................... 40 Installing games .............................................................................. 42 Removing applications .................................................................. 43 Removing Palm Desktop software ............................................... 43 Security ................................................................................................. 44 Assigning a password .................................................................... 44 Changing or deleting a password ................................................ 45 Locking your organizer ................................................................. 45 Recovering from a forgotten password ....................................... 46 Chapter 4: Using Your Basic Applications Overview of basic applications ......................................................... 48 Date Book ......................................................................................... 48 Address Book .................................................................................. 49 To Do List ......................................................................................... 50 Memo Pad ........................................................................................ 51 Calculator ......................................................................................... 51 Expense ............................................................................................ 52 Common tasks ..................................................................................... 53 Creating records .............................................................................. 53 Editing records ................................................................................ 53 Deleting records .............................................................................. 55 Purging records ............................................................................... 56 Exchanging and updating data: HotSync operations ............... 56 Categorizing records ...................................................................... 59 Finding records ............................................................................... 62 Sorting lists of records .................................................................... 66 Making records private .................................................................. 67 Attaching notes ............................................................................... 69 Choosing fonts ................................................................................ 70 Application-specific tasks .................................................................. 71 Date Book ......................................................................................... 71 Address Book .................................................................................. 84 To Do List ......................................................................................... 89 Memo Pad ........................................................................................ 94
Contents Page v Calculator .........................................................................................97 Expense .............................................................................................99 Chapter 5: Communicating Using Your Organizer Managing desktop E-Mail away from your desk .........................109 Setting up Mail on the desktop ...................................................110 Synchronizing Mail with your E-Mail application ..................112 Opening the Mail application on your organizer .....................112 Viewing e-mail items ....................................................................112 Creating e-mail items ....................................................................113 Looking up an address .................................................................116 Adding details to e-mail items ....................................................117 Storing e-mail to be sent later ......................................................120 Editing unsent e-mail ...................................................................120 Draft e-mail ....................................................................................121 Filing e-mail ...................................................................................122 Deleting e-mail ..............................................................................123 Removing e-mail from the Deleted folder .................................123 Purging deleted e-mail .................................................................124 Message List options ....................................................................124 HotSync options ............................................................................126 Creating special filters ..................................................................127 Truncating e-mail items ...............................................................131 Mail menus .....................................................................................132 Beaming information ........................................................................133 Chapter 6: Advanced HotSync® Operations Selecting HotSync setup options .....................................................135 Customizing HotSync application settings ...................................138 Conducting a HotSync operation via modem...............................140 Preparing your computer ............................................................140 Preparing your organizer .............................................................141 Selecting the conduits for a modem HotSync operation .........143 Performing a HotSync operation via a modem ........................144 Conducting a HotSync operation via a network ..........................144 Connecting to your company’s dial-in server ...........................144 Using File Link ...................................................................................146 Creating a user profile ......................................................................147 Chapter 7: Setting Preferences for Your Organizer Viewing preferences .........................................................................149 Buttons preferences ...........................................................................150 Pen preferences ..............................................................................150 HotSync buttons preferences .......................................................152
Page vi Handbook for the Palm III™ Organizer Digitizer preferences ........................................................................ 152 Formats preferences ......................................................................... 152 Country default ............................................................................. 153 Time, date, week start, and numbers formats .......................... 153 General preferences .......................................................................... 154 Auto-off delay ............................................................................... 154 System, alarm, and game sounds ............................................... 155 Modem preferences .......................................................................... 156 Network preferences and TCP/IP software ................................. 157 Selecting a service ......................................................................... 157 Entering a user name ................................................................... 158 Entering a password .................................................................... 159 Adding telephone settings .......................................................... 160 Connecting to your service .......................................................... 163 Creating additional service templates ....................................... 163 Adding detailed information to a service template ................. 164 Creating a login script .................................................................. 167 Deleting a service template ......................................................... 168 Network preferences menu commands .................................... 169 TCP/IP troubleshooting .............................................................. 169 Owner preferences............................................................................ 171 ShortCuts preferences ...................................................................... 172 Creating a ShortCut ...................................................................... 172 Editing a ShortCut ........................................................................ 173 Deleting a ShortCut ...................................................................... 173 Appendix A: Maintaining Your Organizer Caring for your organizer................................................................ 175 Battery considerations ...................................................................... 176 Resetting your organizer ................................................................. 177 Performing a soft reset ................................................................. 177 Performing a hard reset ............................................................... 178 Appendix B: Frequently Asked Questions Software installation problems ....................................................... 181 Operating problems.......................................................................... 182 Tapping and writing problems ....................................................... 183 Application problems....................................................................... 184 HotSync problems ............................................................................ 185 Beaming problems ............................................................................ 189 Password problems .......................................................................... 190 Technical support ............................................................................. 191
Contents Page vii Appendix C: Creating a Custom Expense Report About mapping tables ......................................................................193 Customizing existing sample templates ........................................194 Determining the layout of the Expense Report.............................195 Labels ..............................................................................................195 Sections ...........................................................................................196 Analyzing your custom Expense Report .......................................197 Programming the mapping table ....................................................198 Using applications other than Microsoft Excel .............................202 Expense file details ............................................................................203 Appendix D: Non-ASCII Characters for Login Scripts Use of ^char .......................................................................................205 Carriage return and line feed ..........................................................205 Literal characters ...............................................................................206 Warranty and Other Product Information Limited warranty...............................................................................207 3Com end user software license agreement ..................................210 FCC Statement ...................................................................................213 Canadian RFI Statement ...................................................................213 Index ........................................................................................................ 215
About This Book Page 1 About This Book Welcome to the Palm III™ connected organizer. This handbook is designed to help you get up and running quickly on your organizer. It describes all you need to know about how to use your Palm III organizer and the applications that come with it. It walks you through: nLocating all the parts of your organizer nViewing and entering data nUsing your organizer with your computer nPersonalizing your organizer with your own preference settings After you become familiar with the basic functionality of your Palm III organizer, you can use the rest of this handbook as a reference for less common tasks, for maintaining your Palm III organizer, and also as a source of information if you have problems operating it.