Palm M500 Handheld Instructions Manual

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That’s all there is to it! When you lift the stylus from the screen, your 
handheld recognizes your stroke immediately and prints the letter at 
the insertion point on the screen.
As soon as you lift the stylus from the screen, you can begin the stroke 
for the next character you want to write.
Important:You must begin the character strokes in the Graffiti 
writing area. If you do not make Graffiti strokes in the 
Graffiti writing area, your handheld does not recognize 
them as text...

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Writing capital letters
You make capital letters with the same stroke shapes as the basic 
alphabet characters. To make capital letters, you must first “shift” to 
caps — just as you press the Shift key on a keyboard — and then write 
the character strokes.
Note:Graffiti writing includes a feature that automatically 
capitalizes the first letter when you create a new sentence or a 
new record (by tapping New or a blank line). 
To draw the first letter of a word as...

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Tip:When Caps Shift is active, an “up arrow” symbol appears 
in the lower-right corner of the handheld screen. If you 
accidentally activate Caps Shift, backspace will cancel it.
To enter only capital letters (Caps Lock):
nUse the Caps Lock stroke:
Tip:When Caps Lock is active, an underlined “up arrow” 
symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the handheld 
screen. To return to lowercase, make the Caps Shift 
stroke.
Writing numbers
Writing numbers with Graffiti writing is similar to...

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Writing punctuation marks
Graffiti writing can create any punctuation symbol that you can enter 
from a standard keyboard. All punctuation marks begin with a single 
tap on the Graffiti writing area. When you make this tap, you activate 
Punctuation Shift and a dot appears to show it is active. The next 
stroke you make with the stylus creates a punctuation mark.
Note:When Punctuation Shift is active, you can make a symbol 
stroke anywhere in the Graffiti writing...

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Writing symbols and extended characters
All symbols and extended characters begin with the stroke in the 
Graffiti writing area of your handheld:
When the Symbol Shift is active, a slanted shift symbol appears in the 
lower-right corner of the screen. The next stroke that you make creates 
the symbol or extended character.
Writing accented characters
To create accented characters, draw the stroke normally used to create 
the letter, followed by an accent stroke. Graffiti writing then...

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Accent strokes
Using these accent strokes, you can write the following accented 
letters:
à  á  â  ã  ä  å  è  é  ê  ë  ì  í  î  ï  ò  ó  ô  õ  ö  ù  ú  û  ü  ÿ  ý  ñ
Additional non-English characters
You can write the following characters without any special 
punctuation or shifting:
Note:You must write these non-English characters in the left side of 
the Graffiti writing area.
Navigation strokes
In addition to character symbols, Graffiti writing includes special...

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Graffiti ShortCuts
Graffiti ShortCuts make entering commonly used words or phrases 
quick and easy. ShortCuts are similar to the Glossary or Autotext 
features of some word processors. 
Graffiti writing comes with several predefined ShortCuts, and you can 
also create your own. Each ShortCut can represent up to 45 characters. 
For example, you might create a ShortCut for your name, or for the 
header of a memo. See “ShortCuts preferences” in Chapter 8 to learn 
about creating your own...

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3. Tap “abc” to open the alphabetic keyboard, or tap “123” to open 
the numeric keyboard.
4. Tap the characters to enter text and numbers.
Note:The onscreen keyboard also includes a dialog box for 
international characters. You can switch among the three 
dialogs at any time to enter the exact text you need.
5. After you finish, tap Done to close the onscreen keyboard and 
place the text in the record.
Using Note Pad
In addition to using Graffiti characters and the...

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online Help in Palm Desktop software, the Quick Tour in Palm 
Desktop software (for Windows users), and the Palm Desktop Software 
for the Macintosh User’s Guide on the Palm Desktop software CD-ROM.
Importing data
If you have data stored in computer applications such as spreadsheets 
and databases, or if you want to import data from another handheld, 
you can transfer the data to your handheld without having to key it in 
manually. Save the data in one of the file formats listed below,...

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4. From the File menu, choose Import.
5. Select the file you want to import.
6. Click Open.
Note:If you are importing a vCal or vCard file, skip to step 10. 
You do not have to specify which fields correspond to the 
imported data.
7. To import data into the correct Palm Desktop fields, drag fields in 
the left-hand column so that they are opposite the corresponding 
imported field on the right.
8. If you do not want to import a field, deselect the check box for...