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Guide to the
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Palm OS Software
3.5 Upgrade
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Copyright and Trademark Copyright © 2000 Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Graffiti, Palm, and Palm OS are registered trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries in one or more coun- tries. The Palm logo, Palm III, and Palm V are trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiar- ies. Other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability Palm, Inc. and its subsidiaries assume no responsibility for a
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Contents About This Guide.....................................................................................1 Assumptions ..........................................................................................1 About the illustrations in this guide...................................................1 ® About the Palm OS Software 3.5 Upgrade.........................................2 Installing the Palm OS Software 3.5 Upgrade...................................2 What’s New.....................
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Warranty and Other Product Information..........................................16 Limited Warranty ............................................................................... 16 End User License Agreement............................................................19 Index.......................................................................................................22 Page iv Contents
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About This Guide ® This guide describes the enhancements provided by the Palm OS Software 3.5 Upgrade. Assumptions This guide makes the following assumptions: ■ You are familiar with your handheld and your Desktop application. ® ■ You know how to perform HotSync operations to synchronize your data, and you are familiar with the HotSync Manager located on your desktop. ■ You have access to the documentation for your handheld. This guide does not provide a complete description of the featur
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® About the Palm OS Software 3.5 Upgrade ® The Palm OS Software 3.5 Upgrade is available for purchase from Palm, Inc. as a downloadable file or on CD-ROM. For more information on how to purchase the upgrade in your country, visit http://www.palm.com. The 3.5 Upgrade can be installed only on Palm OS handhelds equipped with Palm OS software version 3.0 or higher. Please consult the web site or the information supplied with the CD-ROM for details about which handhelds can accept this upgrade.
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To install from a downloaded file: 1. Go to http://www.palm.com, purchase and download the upgrade file, then close your web browser. 2. If you are using a Windows-based computer, double click the file to run the Installer application. If you are a using a Macintosh, use Aladdin Stuffit Expander to translate and expand the file. Double-click the Installer application and follow the onscreen instructions. About the Palm OS® Software 3.5 Upgrade Page 3
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What’s New The 3.5 Upgrade includes new features that are designed to help you work faster and more efficiently, and to provide easier access to important information. The features include: ■ Displaying Agenda view to see appointments, untimed events and To Do items in one screen. ■ Masking private records so a placeholder marks where they appear in the list. ■ Duplicating Address Book entries for entering multiple records. ■ Completing fields automatically. ■ Updating future repeating event
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New View: Agenda Your Date Book lists all your appointments and untimed events and your To Do list stores all the things you need to do, and you typically switch between these applications to list all those items for any given day. With the new Agenda View, you can see all your current events and To Do items at the same time. Working in Agenda View Agenda View shows you your untimed events, appointments, and To Do items in one screen. When you tap an untimed event or appointment in Agenda
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What changed? Date Book Views In previous versions of Date Book, you only had Day, Week, and Month views. Now you can use the application button or view icons to display the new Agenda View. To cycle through Day, Week, Month, and Agenda Views: ■ Press the Date Book application button repeatedly to cycle through the Day, Week, Month, and Agenda Views. Date Book button ■ Tap the appropriate view button in the lower-left corner of Date Book. Agenda View Page 6 New View: Agenda
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New Ways to Work with Records Many of the enhancements included in the 3.5 Upgrade improve your ability to work with records. We have incorporated new functionality and updated existing functionality to help you create, update, and manipulate your records. Setting address record security In Address Book, you have always been able to add security to selected records so they are completely visible, or totally hidden from view. Unfortunately, this means you can’t tell where hidden records sho
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To mask all private records: 1. Tap the Applications icon . 2. Tap Security. 3. Tap the Current Privacy pick list and select Mask Records. Tap Mask Records 4. Tap OK to confirm that you want to mask private records. Duplicating addresses In Address Book, if you wanted to create records for two or more people working for the same company or living at the same address, you previously had to enter all the same information repeatedly to create each record. What changed? We added a new Duplicat
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Automatically completing address fields One feature of Expense that many users appreciate is the automatic fill feature. It lets you select an expense type by writing the first letter of ® an expense type in the Graffiti writing area. For example, if you write the letter “T,” it enters the “Taxi” expense type. Writing “T” and then “E” enters “Telephone” which is the first expense type beginning with the letters “TE.” What changed? Now the same feature is available in Address Book. As you en
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Updating events In Date Book it has always been easy to create a repeating event. However, once you created a repeating event, you only had the choice of deleting the currently selected event or deleting all connected repeating events, you did not have the ability to change a repeating event. What changed? A new button (Future) was added to the Repeating Event dialog box, so you can now also modify or delete the current and future events within a group of repeating events without affectin
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Note: In Date Book, you can choose to delete the text of the current repeating event, current and future events, or all instances of that event. When you purge repeating events in Date Book, a confirmation dialog box appears. Tap the pick list and select how you want to purge old records. Purge deletes repeating events if the last of the series ends before the date that you purge records. Considerations for repeating or continuous events If you change the date of an occurrence of a repeat
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What changed? The Reminder dialog now contains a new Snooze button. If you want to temporarily ignore the reminder, you can tap Snooze to dismiss the reminder and return to the current screen. The reminder message appears again five minutes after you tap Snooze. Viewing event record details It has always been easy to see your appointments and address record details at a glance, but there are some new features that make them even easier to read. What changed? When you create an event in Date
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To select text in an application: 1. Tap the beginning of the text that you want to select. 2. Drag the stylus over the text to highlight it (in black), double tap to select a word, or triple tap to select a line of text. Note: across You can also drag the text to select additional down words, or drag to select a group of lines. Beaming categories Your handheld is equipped with an IR (infrared) port that you can use ® to beam information to another Palm OS handheld that’s close by and also
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Changes to Menus and Commands Menus and commands are easy to use, and we have added two new features to help you quickly access the menu bar and the more commonly used menu items. Command toolbar The 3.5 Upgrade includes a command toolbar that displays context- sensitive menu commands for the current screen. For example, if text is selected the menu icons displayed may be undo, cut, copy, and paste. Tap an icon to select the command, or immediately write the corresponding command letter for
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Accessing the menu bar Before you can perform any of the tasks on the menu bar, you either have to display the menu bar or enter the Graffiti command. What changed? With the 3.5 Upgrade, you can also display the menu bar by tapping in the title area. To open the menu bar: 1. Open an application (such as Memo Pad). 2. Do one of the following: Tap the Menu icon . Tap the inverted title area at the top of the screen. Tap the title area Tap the Menu icon Auto-off delay Your handheld has an automa
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Warranty and Other Product Information Limited Warranty This warranty applies to customers located in the United States, Australia, Canada (except Quebec), Ireland, New Zealand, U.K., and other English language countries, and countries for which a translation into the local language is not provided. Palm, Inc., warrants to the original end user (“Customer”) that this HARDWARE: product will be free from defects in workmanship and materials, under normal use, for one year from the date of origin
