Psion Revo Palmtop Computer Instructions Manual

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Setting a system password
To prevent anyone looking at the files on the Internal
drive of your Revo, set a system password which you
must type in before you can use the machine.
To do this:
1.Select the Password icon from the Control
panel in the System screen.
2.Set the Display owner information line to ‘At
switch on’.
3.Tick the Ask for password box.
4.Type the password twice for confirmation.
Choose a password that you won’t easily forget,
but one that won’t be easy for someone else...

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Things to do next!
This section gives a brief overview of what else you
may want to do when your first use your Revo,
including:
·Ideas for how you can use the programs.
·Ideas for customising your Revo.
Which programs to use?
The first things you wish to do may include:
Entering appointments, reminders, birthdays and
lists of things to do from your old diary or time
planner into the Agenda program. If you use a
PC scheduler such as Microsoft Outlook or Lotus
Organizer, you can use...

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The Control panel
Use the Control panel to change settings for your
Revo. To do this:
1.Move to the System screen, then tap on the
Control panel button on the Toolbar, or select
the command from the Tools menu.
2.To display the settings for an item, tap on the
icon twice, or highlight it and press Enter.
Initially, you should set up the Time & date, Screen,
and Switch on/off settings (and Printer if you intend
to use one).
When you first use your Revo, you may wish to:
Use the...

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Control panel
Control panel
Toolbar button
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Customising the System screen
You can use the commands on the View menu to
change how the System screen looks and works:
·Change the position of the Title bar by selecting
Title position, and the width of the columns by
selecting Column width.
·Change the size of text and icons on screen, so
that more or fewer files and folders are
displayed, using Zoom in and Zoom out (or use
the ‘magnifying glass’ command icons).
·Turn the Toolbar off and on with Show toolbar;
without the Toolbar you...

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Files, folders & programs
Files, folders & programs
· ·· ·
·Files: Use this view for file management, e.g.
creating, opening, moving, copying, renaming and
deleting files.
· ·· ·
·Today: Use this view to see Agenda
appointments and To-dos for the current day,
and information about the battery, connection
and memory. See ‘Today’ later in this chapter.
When you first switch on your Revo, the Files view is
displayed. The name of the current folder is displayed
in the grey Title bar at the left of the...

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Files, folders & programs
Moving around
To move the highlight between the files and folders
on the screen: tap on the names, or press the arrow
keys. If there are more files than can be displayed on
screen; scroll the screen by pressing the arrow keys,
or tap on the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen.Bookmarking a folder
You can use a “bookmark” to tag a folder that you
frequently use, so that you can quickly move back to it.
To set the bookmark, move to the folder and select Set
bookmark from the...

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Files, folders & programs
How can I see which files and programs are open?
Select the List open files command from the File menu,
or hold down the Ctrl key and tap the System icon. To
move to a file or program in the list, highlight it and tap
the Go to file button.
Closing folders & programs
· ·· ·
·To close the current folder: tap on the Close
folder icon 
 at the top of the screen, or
highlight it and press Enter. When you close all
folders in the System screen, you move to the
highest level (or...

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Creating new files
You can create files from the System screen, or from
within programs. As a general rule:
·Create a file from the System screen to start
with the standard file settings.
·Create a file from within a program to use the
settings from the file currently open, e.g. labels in
a Data file, or to use a template in Word.To create a file from the System screen:
1.Move to the folder where you wish to create the
file.
2.Select the Create new command from the File
menu,...

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Files, folders & programs
What names can I use for my files & folders? 
You can use most characters in file and folder names,
including spaces, so it is fine to have folders called, e.g.
“1997 Purchase Orders and Invoices”. The only
characters which cannot be used in a file or folder name
are: / < > :  *?.
The maximum length of a filename is 252 characters,
but this includes the names of the folders within which
the file is contained (known as the “path”), e.g.
‘Documents/folder1/folder2/file’.
This...