Handspring Treo 270 User Guide

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PhoneBook menus
PhoneBook menus are shown here for your reference, and PhoneBook features that are not 
explained elsewhere in this guide are described here.
See page 33 for information about choosing menu commands.
The Record and Options menus differ depending on which view is active.
Record menus
   
Options menus
 
 
Phone 
PreferencesOpens a dialog where you can lock your SIM card to prevent unauthorized 
use of your communicator’s wireless mode features. 
Contacts list view 
Contacts edit view
Call History view 
Contacts record view
Contacts view 
Contacts record & edit views
Call History view Dial Pad & Speed Dial views 
						

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Preferences 
nRemember last category. Determines how the Contacts list appears 
when you return to it from another application. If you select this check 
box, the Contacts list shows the last category you selected. If you clear 
it, the Contacts list displays the All category.
nList By. Determines how the Contact entries are sorted in the 
Contacts view, and also controls the PhoneBook Instant Lookup 
feature and SMS address lookup options. 
Call Preferences
 
nBlock outgoing caller ID. Determines whether PhoneBook reveals your 
phone number to the person you’re calling. If your service provider 
supports caller ID blocking, you can prevent revealing your phone 
number to people you call.
nGet Status. Displays the current call waiting, call blocking, and call 
forwarding settings stored on your wireless service providers network. 
Use this button to confirm that the network settings you selected are 
active.
Dial Preferences
nDial, Email, SMS. Provides third-party applications access to 
PhoneBook’s dialing functions. In most cases you do not need to 
change these settings. 
						

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nDefault country. Determines if North American hyphenation 
conventions are automatically applied to phone numbers, and whether 
the following two options are available:
nWhen dialing, add this area code to 7 digit numbers. Inserts the area 
code you specify in front of 7-digit numbers before dialing.
nAlways dial 1 in front of the area code. Inserts a 1 in front of 10-digit 
numbers before dialing.
If you select a country other than United States or Canada, numbers 
are formatted exactly as they appear in the Contact record.
Rename Custom 
Fields
These custom fields appear at the end of the Contact Edit screen. Rename 
them to identify the kind of information you enter in them. The names you 
give the custom fields appear in all Contacts records. 
Select Network
nAvailable networks. Enables you to manually select networks while 
roaming if multiple service providers are available. When you manually 
select a network, your Treo finds only that network until you either 
choose another network, or return to Automatic Mode.
nAutomatic Mode. Allows your Treo to automatically select the provider 
with the strongest signal. By default, Automatic Mode is on. 
						

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Phone Info 
nNumber: Displays your SIM card’s phone number.
Note: Not all wireless service providers include the phone number on 
the SIM. If the phone number is not on the SIM, this field 
displays “No number on SIM” instead of the number. 
nIMEI: Displays your communicator’s equipment ID number which 
uniquely identifies your communicator to your mobile service provider’s 
network.
nFirmware Rev: Displays the version number for the mobile 
communication software on your communicator.
About 
PhoneBookShows version information for PhoneBook. 
						

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Date Book Plus
When you open Date Book Plus, the screen shows the current date and a list of times for a normal 
business day. 
Working in Day View
Day View shows an hourly calendar for a particular date. If there are events scheduled on that 
date, they appear in the appropriate time slot.
To view or select a date, do one of the following: 
nUse the scroll buttons or roll the rocker switch to move forward or backward one day at a 
time.
Note: If you plan to do a lot of scrolling in Date Book Plus while the lid is closed, consider 
enabling the Scroll before day move option in the Day Options dialog box. See page 
120 for details.
nPress Shift   and then a scroll button to scroll by weeks.
nTap the day of the week that you want in the date bar at the top of the screen. If necessary, 
tap the Previous week or Next week scroll arrows to move to another week.
nPress Menu   and under Options select Go to Day (/O). To scroll by days, press a scroll 
button. To scroll by months, hold Shift   and press a scroll button. To scroll by years 
hold Option   and press a scroll button. After you scroll to the date, press Space   
to select it. You can also type the number of the day or tap the screen to select a date from 
the calendar.
Scheduling an event
A record in Date Book Plus is called an “event.” An event can be any kind of activity that you 
associate with a day. You can enter a new event on any of the available time lines. When you 
schedule an event, its description appears on the time line, and its duration is automatically set to 
one hour. You can easily change the start time and duration for any event.
Note: It’s possible to schedule events that overlap, but Date Book Plus makes it easy to find 
such conflicts. See page 115 for details.
Previous week Next week
Tap to select a day of 
the current week
Previous yearNext year
Tap to select current date Tap to select a month
Tap to select a day 
						

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You can also schedule events that occur on a particular date but have no specific start or end 
times, such as birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries. These are referred to as “untimed events.” 
Untimed events appear at the top of the list of times, marked with a diamond. You can have more 
than one untimed event on a particular date.
You can also schedule a repeating event, such as a weekly meeting, and continuous events, such 
as a three-day conference or a vacation.
To schedule an event:
1. Select the date on which you want to schedule the event as described in the previous section.
2. Type the time the event begins to open the Set Time dialog box. For example, type 4 for 4:00.
3. If the event is longer than an hour, press the bottom scroll button and type the end time.
4. Hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
5. Enter a description of the event. You can enter up to 255 characters.
6. Tap a blank area of the screen to deselect the event. A vertical line appears next to the time, 
indicating the duration of the event.
To schedule an untimed event: 
1. Select the date on which you want to schedule the event. See page 105 for details.
2. Press Menu  .
3. Under Record, select New Appointment (/N).
Start Time Tap to scroll to earlier hours
Tap to scroll to later hours
Tap to change hours
Tap to change minutes
Event description
Time bar shows 
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4. Hold Option   and press Return   so that no start or end times are defined for the new 
event.
Tip: You can also create a new untimed event by making sure no event is selected and 
then entering a description.
5. Enter a description of the event.
6. Tap a blank area on the screen to deselect the untimed event.
Note: If you create an event and decide later that there is no particular start or end time, you 
can easily change it to an untimed event. Tap the time of the event in the Date Book Plus 
screen, tap No Time, and then hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
Rescheduling an event
You can easily make changes to your schedule with your communicator. 
To reschedule an event:
1. Tap the event you want to reschedule.
2. Tap Details.
3. To change the time, tap the Time box and select a new time.
4. To change the date, tap the Date box and select a new date.
5. Hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
No time 
selectedNew 
untimed 
event 
						

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Setting an alarm for an event
The Alarm setting enables you to set an audible alarm for events in Date Book Plus. You can set 
an alarm to sound minutes, hours, or days before an event. The default Alarm setting is 5 minutes 
before the time of the event, but you can change this to any number of minutes, hours, or days.
When you set an alarm, this icon   appears to the far right of the event with the alarm. When 
the alarm tone sounds, a reminder message also appears onscreen.
Note: Make sure the ringer is on. Silencing the ringer turns off all system sounds, including 
alarms. When you silence the ringer, Date Book Plus alarms vibrate.
To set an alarm for an event:
1. Tap the event to which you want to assign an alarm.
2. Tap Details.
3. Tap the Alarm check box to select it.
4. Tap the pick list to select Minutes, Hours, or Days.
5. Select the 5 and enter any number from 0 to 99 (inclusive) as the number of time units.
6. Hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
Alarm for untimed events: You can set a silent alarm for an untimed event. In this case, the alarm 
triggers at the specified period of minutes, hours, or days before midnight (beginning) of the day 
of the untimed event. No audible alarm sounds for an untimed event; instead, the reminder 
message appears onscreen.
For example, you set an alarm for an untimed event that occurs on February 4th. If the alarm is 
set for 5 minutes, the reminder message appears at 11:55 PM on the night of February 3rd. The 
reminder remains onscreen until you turn on your communicator and hold Option   and press 
Return   to dismiss it.
To dismiss the alarm reminder, do one of the following:
nTap 5 min, 10 min, 30 min, or Other to reset the alarm to notify you in a specified period of 
time.
nPress the top scroll button.
Tap here to 
select unit of time Enter number of 
time units here 
						

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Scheduling repeating or continuous events
The Repeat function lets you schedule events that recur at regular intervals or extend over a 
period of consecutive days. A birthday is a good example of an event that repeats annually. 
Another example is a weekly guitar lesson that falls on the same day of the week and the same 
time of day. 
Typically, a continuous event is an untimed event such as a business trip or a vacation that 
continues for several days but doesn’t occur at a particular time of day.
To schedule a repeating or continuous event:
1. Tap the event.
2. Tap Details.
3. Tap the Repeat box to open the Change Repeat dialog box.
4. Tap Day, Week, Month, or Year to set how often event repeats.
For a continuous event, tap Day.
5. Enter a number that corresponds to how often you want the event to repeat on the Every line. 
For example, if you select Month and enter the number 2, the event repeats every other 
month.
6. To specify an end date for the repeating or continuous event, tap the End on pick list and tap 
Choose Date. Use the date picker to select an end date.
7. Hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
After you schedule a repeating or continuous event, this icon   appears to the far right of the 
event.
Repeat 
box 
						

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Changing and deleting repeating or continuous events
If you change or delete a repeating or continuous event you can apply the action to only the 
current event, to all instances of the event, or to the current event and instances that follow. 
To change or delete repeating events:
1. Select the record you want to change or delete.
2. Tap Details.
3. Enter the change.
4.  Hold Option   and press Return   to accept the change, or tap Delete.
5. Tap one of the following:
 
Current. Changes or deletes only the current instance of the repeating event.
All. Changes or deletes all past, current, and future occurrences of this event.
Following. Changes or deletes the current event and all future occurrences of this event.
Considerations for repeating or continuous events
Keep the following points in mind:
nIf you change the start date of a repeating event, your communicator calculates the number 
of days you moved the event. Your communicator then automatically changes the end date 
to maintain the duration of the repeating event.
nIf you change the repeat interval (e.g., daily to weekly) of a repeating event, past occurrences 
(prior to the day on which you change the setting) are not changed, and your communicator 
creates a new repeating event.
nIf you change the date of an occurrence of a repeating event (e.g., from January 14th to 
January 15th) and apply the change to All occurrences, the new date becomes the start date 
of the repeating event. Your communicator adjusts the end date to maintain the duration of 
the event. If you apply the change to Current or Future occurrences, past occurrences (prior 
to the day on which you change the setting) are not changed. 
nIf you change other repeat settings (e.g., time, alarm, private) of a repeating event and apply 
the change to Future occurrences, your communicator creates a new event. The start date of 
this new event is the day on which the setting is changed. Past occurrences (prior to the day 
of the change) are not changed.
nIf you apply a change to a single occurrence of a repeating event (e.g., time), that occurrence 
no longer shows the Repeat icon  .