Pcs Phone Handspring Treo 300 User Guide

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To Do List
To Do List is a convenient place to create reminders and prioritize 
the things that you have to do.
In To Do List, you can do the following:
©Make a quick and convenient list of things to do.
©Assign a priority level to each task.
©Assign a due date for any or all of your To Do items. 
©Assign To Do items to categories so that you can organize and view 
them in logical groups.
©Sort your To Do items either by due date, priority...

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CityTime
CityTime helps you keep track of the time anywhere around the 
globe. 
In CityTime, you can do the following:
©Select a home city as a point of reference.
©Display the day and time in four other cities simultaneously.
©Add a definition for any city that isn’t in the default list.
©Display sunrise and sunset information for your home city.
To open CityTime:
1.
Press Option  . 
2.Press Blazer  . 
Ti p :  You can also open CityTime by tapping the CityTime icon...

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Calculator
Calculator enables you to perform addition, subtraction, 
multiplication, division and a variety of advanced math and 
scientific calculations.
In Calculator, you can do the following:
©Select a view to perform specific types of calculations including: 
math, trigonometry, finance, logic, statistics, weight/temp, length, 
area, and volume.
©Store and retrieve values.
©Display the last series of calculations, which is useful for...

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Expense
Expense lets you keep track of your expenses and then transfer the 
information to a spreadsheet on your computer.
In Expense, you can do the following:
©Record dates, types of expenses, amount spent, payment method, and 
other details associated with any money that you spend.
©Assign expense items to categories so that you can organize and view 
them in logical groups.
©Keep track of vendors (companies) and people involved with each 
particular expense.
©Log...

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Common Tasks
n addition to the wireless communication applications, your PCS 
Phone Handspring
® Treo™ 300 also includes a full suite of personal 
information manager (PIM) applications: Date Book Plus, the Contacts 
view in PhoneBook, To Do List, Memo Pad, and Expense. This chapter 
provides instructions on how to do tasks that are common to several 
applications. It’s easy to transfer what you learn in one application to the 
other applications because the...

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Creating records
You can use the following procedure to create a new record in Date Book 
Plus, the Contacts view in PhoneBook, To Do List, Memo Pad, and 
Expense.
To create a record:
1.
Open the application in which you want to create a record.
2.Do one of the following:
nStart entering data (your phone automatically creates a new record).
Ti p :  To create another new record, press the bottom scroll button and begin entering data.
nIn Date Book Plus and Contacts view in...

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Editing records
After you create a record, you can change, delete, or enter new text at any 
time. Two screen features tell you when your phone is in editing mode:
©A blinking cursor 
©One or more edit lines 
Entering text
For information on how to enter text using the keyboard on your phone, 
the onscreen keyboard, or the keyboard attached to your computer, see 
Section 2.
Edit menu
The Edit menu is available with any screen where you enter or edit text. 
In...

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The following commands may appear in an Edit menu:
Deleting records
To delete a record in any of the PIM applications:
1.
Select the record you want to delete.
2.Press Menu  .
3.Under Record, select the Delete command (/D):
Date Book Plus: Delete Item
Contacts view in PhoneBook: Delete Contact
To Do List: Delete Item
Memo Pad: Delete Memo
Expense: Delete Item
UndoReverses the action of the last edit command. For example, if you used 
Cut to remove text, Undo restores the text...

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A confirmation dialog box appears. If you want to save a copy of the 
deleted item to an archive file in Palm Desktop software, be sure that 
the check box is checked. If you don’t want to save a copy, tap the 
check box to remove the check.
4.Hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
If you choose to save a copy of the selected item, your phone transfers it to 
the archive file on your desktop the next time you perform a HotSync 
operation.
Other ways to delete...

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To purge records:
1.
Open the application.
2.Press Menu  .
3.Under Record, select Purge (/E). 
A confirmation dialog box appears. 
Date Book Plus: Tap the pick list and select how old a record must 
be to be purged. Purge deletes repeating events if the last of the series 
ends before the date that you purge records.
Date Book Plus, To Do List: If you want to save a copy of the purged 
records to an archive file on your desktop, be sure that the check box 
is checked. If you...