3Com Palmone VII Organiser Instructions Manual

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Example of web clipping
This example takes you through the process of finding someone’s 
phone number and address using the Yahoo!
® People Search query 
application. This query application is preloaded on your organizer.
To find a phone number and an address:
1. Raise the antenna.
Raising the antenna automatically opens the Applications 
Launcher to the Palm.Net category. If you moved the Yahoo! 
People Search query application, go to that category. 
2. Tap the Yahoo! People Search icon.
3. Tap the First Name edit line and enter the first name of a person 
whose address and phone number you want to find.
You can use Graffiti writing or the onscreen keyboard to enter 
data.
4. Enter the last name of the person and the city where the person 
lives.
5. Tap the State pick list and select the state where the person lives.
Back arrow
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Tip:Writing the first few letters of the state you want causes 
the list to scroll to the first entry that begins with those 
letters. For example, write “ca” to select and enter 
California.
6. (Optional) If you want to find the address of the person, tap the 
Show Addresses check box to select it.
7. Tap Search.
Within seconds, your clipping appears. In this case, the query 
application found two items that satisfy your query.
How big was that clipping?
After you receive a clipping, you can find out the size of the clipping 
by tapping the title area of the screen. If you see two exclamation 
points (!!) there, the clipping is larger than 1,000 bytes.
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To see the size of a clipping:
nTap the title area. The title area expands to show how many bytes 
the clipping contains.
Reviewing stored clippings: History list
You can see a list of stored clippings in the History list and then select 
the one you want to review. You can see clippings that pertain only to 
the query application that is open. When you open another query 
application, the History list changes to display only clippings that you 
received in that query application.
Note:You do not incur a cost when you review clippings in the 
History list.
To review the History list:
1. Open the query application that has clippings you want to review.
2. Tap the History pick list.
3. Select the clipping you want to review.
Saving information from a query application
You can copy the text in a clipping or a page of a query application and 
paste it into another application. For example, you can copy an 
address you receive as a clipping from Yahoo! People Search and 
paste the address into Address Book.
To save the text of a clipping or page:
1. Make sure the clipping or page you want to copy is onscreen.
Tap here
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You can use the Back arrow or the History list to display the 
clipping or page you want.
2. Tap the Menu icon  . 
3. Tap Edit, and then tap Copy Page.
4. Open one of the basic applications, such as Address Book or Memo 
Pad.
5. Create a new record.
6. Tap the Menu icon. 
7. Tap Edit, and then tap Paste.
Keep the following points in mind about the Copy Page command:
nCopying always starts at the top of the current clipping or page, 
regardless of what is displayed onscreen.
nThe Copy Page command copies only the first 4,000 bytes (4KB) of 
data. If the clipping or page you copy contains more than 4KB of 
data, your organizer appends the word “truncated” to the end of 
the pasted text.
nThe Copy Page command does not copy images or icons; table 
structures; or text formatting such as bold, italics, and so on.
Sending e-mail from a page
If a query application or clipping gives you the opportunity to reply 
to an e-mail address, you can do so. 
To send e-mail from a page: 
1. Tap the address displayed in the page.
The iMessenger application opens. The To: field contains the 
address to reply to.
2. Enter the text of your message.
3. Do one of the following:
Tap Put in Outbox to file the message in the Outbox. Your mes-
sage is sent the next time you open the  iMessenger application 
and tap Check & Send. 
Tap Cancel, and then tap Yes to save the message in the Draft 
folder of the iMessenger application. Tap No to delete the 
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Query application menus
All query applications have the same menus. Query application 
menus are shown here for your reference, and query application 
features that are not explained elsewhere in this book are described 
here.
See “Using menus” in Chapter 1 for information about choosing menu 
commands.
Options menu
About Web 
ClippingShows version information for the web clipping 
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Using the iMessenger application
In addition to the Mail application and infrared (IR) beaming, 
which are explained in Chapter 6, your organizer offers you 
another way to stay in communication with others: wireless 
Internet messaging.
By activating the Palm.Net wireless communication service, you 
acquire an address and mailbox on the Palm.Net network. You can 
then use the iMessenger application to send and receive short text 
messages. Whenever you’re within coverage of the network, you can 
use the iMessenger application to be in contact with anyone who has 
an Internet e-mail account.
In the iMessenger application, you can do the following:
nDownload messages waiting for you on the Palm.Net network.
nRead, delete, reply to, and reroute incoming messages.
nCreate outgoing messages and drafts of messages.
nSend messages to any Internet e-mail address directly from your 
organizer.
The iMessenger application differs 
from the Mail application
The iMessenger application is completely independent of the Mail 
application. You use them differently, and they do not interact in any 
way. You do not have to choose between Mail and the iMessenger 
application, however. You can use both. 
One convenient similarity between the iMessenger application and 
Mail is this: skills you learn in one application you can easily transfer 
to the tasks you do in the other. For example, writing text, looking up 
addresses, viewing header information, saving drafts, and purging 
deleted items are all done the same way in both applications.
Mail depends on your computer
You use Mail to manage the e-mail that you receive in your desktop 
computer’s E-Mail application. When you create e-mail items in Mail, 
Icon of the iMessenger application
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you cannot send them out directly from your organizer; rather, you 
must first synchronize your organizer with your computer. At that 
time, e-mail items you created in Mail are transferred to your desktop 
E-Mail application and sent out through that application. Mail does 
not use the transmitter or the Palm.Net wireless communication 
service. See Chapter 6 for complete information about Mail.
The iMessenger application is independent of your computer
The iMessenger application is a wireless feature. By taking advantage 
of the wireless capability of your organizer, the iMessenger 
application enables you to send and receive messages even though 
you may be miles away from any desktop computer. You work only 
with your organizer to create, send, receive, and otherwise manage 
messages. Synchronizing with your computer does not transfer 
iMessenger messages to your desktop E-Mail application.
Opening the iMessenger application
1. Raise the antenna, located on the right side of your organizer.
Raising the antenna automatically opens the Applications 
Launcher to the Palm.Net category. When the transmitter suc-
cessfully connects to the network, your organizer beeps.
2. Tap the iMessenger icon  .
Tip:You can set your organizer to open the iMessenger application 
directly whenever you raise the antenna. See “Buttons 
preferences” in Chapter 8 for details.To ensure the best reception: If 
you are holding the organizer 
in your hand, raise the antenna 
to its position at 135
°, located 
at the second click you feel as 
you raise the antenna. If the 
organizer is on a flat surface, 
raise the antenna to its position 
at 90
°.
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Checking for and viewing messages
The iMessenger List screen of the Inbox lists your downloaded 
messages, who sent them, and optionally, the date they were received. 
(See “Date column” later in this chapter.)
nUnread messages have a dash ( — ) next to them.
nMessages you’ve already read have a check mark ( 4
 ) next to 
them.
nMessages you create have a diamond (u
) next to them.
You can tap these symbols to open a menu of commands that you can 
use in the current context.
To check for new messages:
nTap Check & Send.
Tapping Check & Send accomplishes two actions:
nDownloads messages that are waiting for you on the network
nSends out messages that are in the iMessenger Outbox
A Transaction Progress message box appears onscreen and tracks the 
progress of the transaction.
The iMessenger application downloads no more than ten messages at 
a time to your organizer. The Transaction Progress message box 
notifies you if more messages are waiting for you on the network.
To cancel a wireless transaction:
nIn the Transaction Progress message box, tap Cancel.
Any messages that were downloaded to your organizer before you 
tapped Cancel appear in the Inbox.
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Important:You incur a cost for any data that was downloaded or sent 
to the server before you tapped Cancel. 
To view a log of the most recent wireless transaction:
1. Tap the Menu icon  .
2. Tap Options, and then tap Show Log.
To open a message:
nIn the iMessenger List screen, tap a message to open it.
To close a message:
nTap Done.
Opening and reading messages
A message is downloaded from the network in compressed 
characters. When you open the message, the characters are converted 
to an uncompressed, readable form. 
The message arrives in segments, each comprising 500 readable 
characters.
Note:You are charged for the number of bytes downloaded as 
compressed characters, not by the number of readable 
characters.
Short messages and long messages
The following table outlines how incoming messages of various 
lengths are treated:
RecipientSender
Time and date sent
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If a message has x 
readable characters Then this happens:
500 or fewer characters The entire message is downloaded. 
 appears at the 
end of the message.
500 - 50,000 characters The first 500 characters are 
downloaded. A message at the end tells 
you how many readable characters are 
left to be retrieved. You can download 
as much of the rest of the message as 
you want or ignore what’s left.
More than 50,000 
charactersPalm.Net service returns the message 
to the sender as undeliverable.
Marks the end of a message
Tap right arrow to view the
next message, left arrow for 
the previous one