Pcs Phone Handspring Treo 300 User Guide

							Section 6
Application-Specific Tasks 133
Application 
Ta s k s
6
Display 
Options
©Show Time Bars. Activates the time bars that appear in 
the Day View. The time bars show the duration of an event 
and illustrate event conflicts
©Compress Day View. Controls how times appear in the 
Day View. When Compress Day View is off, all time slots 
display. When it is on, start and end times display for each 
event, but blank time slots toward the bottom of the 
screen disappear to minimize scrolling. 
©Show PM Label. Displays a “p” after PM times.
© Show End Times. Displays all time bars and time slots for 
end times of an event.
© Scroll Before Day Move. Determines whether the front 
panel scroll buttons will scroll up and down within the 
current day before scrolling to the previous or next day.
© Auto-scroll Time. Displays events based on the time of 
day when the Day View contains more than one screen of 
information. 
© Float Advance at Midnight. Advances floating events to 
the next day at midnight of the current day.
©Show Completed Floating Events. Displays completed 
floating events. 
						

							Section 6
134 Application-Specific Tasks
Alarm 
Preferences
©Alarm Sound. Sets the tone of the alarm.
© Snooze Sound. Sets the tone of the snooze alarm. 
© Remind Sound. Sets the tone of the reminder alarm. The 
reminder alarm sounds when the snooze alarm is not 
acknowledged. 
©Play Sound. Defines how many tones the alarm emits 
before it stops. The choices are Once, Twice, 3 Times, 5 
Times, and 10 Times.
©Repeat Alarm. Defines how many times the alarm repeats 
when it is not acknowledged. The choices are Once, 
Twice, 3 Times, 5 Times, 10 Times, and 100 Times.
©Every. Defines how often the alarm sound repeats. The 
choices are Minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 30 
minutes.
© Alarm Preset. Automatically sets an alarm for each new 
event. The silent alarm for untimed events is defined by 
minutes, days, or hours before midnight of the date of the 
event.  
						

							Section 6
Application-Specific Tasks 135
Application 
Ta s k s
6
To  D o  
Preferences
©Show Categories. Displays the To Do items in the 
categories you select.
©Priorities Displayed. Displays To Do items with the 
selected priority level. The choices are 1 only, 1-2, 1-3, 1-
4, and 1-5.
©Show Priority. Displays the priority level for To Do items.
©Show Completed Items. Displays completed To Do items.
©Show Undated Items. Shows all To Do items that have not 
been assigned a due date.
©Show Dated Items. Shows all To Do items that have been 
assigned a due date.
©Days before Due Date. Defines the number of days before 
the due date that an item will appear in Day View as a To 
Do item.
©Create Options. Opens the Create Options dialog box 
where you can select the default priority and category for 
To Do Items you create in Date Book Plus.
UnDelete from 
ArchiveRestores the last event you deleted from Date Book Plus (provided it 
was stored in the Archive file). You can select this command 
repeatedly to restore additional events. 
Go to WeekEnables you to jump to a specific week by tapping the week number 
in the current year. 
						

							Section 6
136 Application-Specific Tasks
Week 
Preferences
©Time Format. Defines the format of the time display. The 
choices are No Time, 11p, 11:30p, 23, 23:30.
©Display To Do. Defines where To Do items will appear on 
the Date Book Plus screen. The choices are Top, Bottom, 
and Hide.
©Week Start. Defines the first day of the week for Week View 
with Text.
©Wordwrap Single Entry. Wraps text in cells that contain a 
single event to display as much text as will fit in the cell.
©Hide Untimed Floating Events. Removes untimed floating 
events from the Week View with Text display.
©Show Journal. Displays a Daily Journal entry.
©Include Week Numbers in Title. Displays the selected week 
number in the title bar. 
						

							Section 6
Application-Specific Tasks 137
Application 
Ta s k s
6
Month 
Preferences
©Show Timed Events. Displays events that you assigned to a 
specific time.
©Show Untimed Events. Displays events that you assigned 
to a date, but did not assign to a specific time.
©Show Daily Repeating Events. Displays events that repeat 
each day.
©Include Week Numbers in Title. Displays week numbers in 
the title bar for the first and last weeks in the month.
©Show Zero Duration Events. Displays events that have no 
duration in the Month View display.
Year 
Preferences
©Hide Floating and Done Items. Removes floating events 
and completed To Do items from the Year View display.
©Hide Untimed Events. Removes untimed events from the 
Year View display. 
©Hide Zero Duration Events. Removes events without a 
duration from the Year View display.
©Hide Events 
						

							Section 6
138 Application-Specific Tasks
List View 
Preferences
©Date Book. Determines which type of events appear in the 
List View display. The choices are: Appt, Float, Done, 
Alarms Only, and Repeat events only appear once.
©To Do. Determines which type of To Do items appear in 
the List View display. The choices are All, Not Complete, 
Complete, and None. If you choose either Not Complete 
or Complete, you also have the following choices: Dated 
& Undated, Dated only, and Undated only.
©Filter by Text. Displays events that contain the text you 
enter in this field and hides events that do not contain 
this text.
©Show. Determines the type of information that will 
appear for each event. The choices are Day Name and 
Time.
About Date 
Book+Shows version information for Date Book Plus. 
						

							Section 6
Application-Specific Tasks 139
Application 
Ta s k s
6
Blazer
If you can’t hold the world in the palm of your hand, at least you can 
hold the World Wide Web when you use Blazer to browse the Internet on 
your phone’s screen. To use Blazer, your service plan must include PCS 
Vision.
Viewing web pages
You can view web pages whenever you are inside a coverage area. If you 
are outside a coverage area, you can view web pages that are stored 
temporarily on your phone in an area called the “cache.” However, if a 
page stored in the cache has an expiration date and it is past that date, 
you need to establish an Internet connection to view that page.
Ti p :  You can tell whether you are inside a coverage area by looking at the signal strength indicator in the lower right corner of the screen. 
To view a web page:
1.
Make sure wireless mode is on. See page 10 for details.
2.Press Blazer .
3.Press Menu  .
4.Under Go, select Go to Web Page (/G).
Ti p :  You can also tap the Folder icon   to open the Go to Web Page dialog box.
 
 
5.Enter the URL you want to view.
Folder icon 
						

							Section 6
140 Application-Specific Tasks
6.Hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
While a page is loading, a Progress icon   appears in the lower 
right corner of the screen. You can tap links to other pages as soon as 
they appear. You don’t need to wait until a page fully loads. To stop 
loading a page, tap the Stop icon   in the lower left corner of the 
screen.
 
7.Navigate within a web site, by doing any of the following:
nTo scroll through a page, use the scroll buttons or tap the onscreen 
arrows or scroll bar (if one appears).
nTo move between elements on a page, such as fields, icons, or buttons, 
roll the rocker switch or hold Shift   and use the scroll buttons. 
nTo select an element on a page, move to the element and press the 
rocker switch or tap the element on the screen.
nTo move to between pages when no elements are highlighted, press 
Return   to move to the next page or Backspace   to move to the 
previous page.
Ti p :  To view a list of web sites that are optimized for your phone, go to the home page, and then tap Web Portals.
Working with bookmarks
The Bookmark view makes it easy for you to get to web sites you visit 
often. 
Tap to go to 
home page 
						

							Section 6
Application-Specific Tasks 141
Application 
Ta s k s
6
Viewing bookmarked pages
Your phone may come with a few bookmarks already in place. You can 
jump directly to any of the predefined bookmarks, or to any pages for 
which you’ve created a bookmark. 
To view a bookmark:
1.
Make sure wireless mode is on. See page 10 for details.
2.Press Blazer   twice to access the Bookmark view  .
3.Tap the bookmark you want to view. 
Ti p :  You can also press the scroll buttons to scroll to other pages, and roll 
the rocker switch to scroll through the current page. To view the selected 
page, press the rocker switch.
Adding bookmarks
You can store up to 100 bookmarks and group them in categories by 
placing similar links on the same bookmark page. See page 144 for 
information on creating page categories.
To bookmark the current page:
1.
From the Page view, go to the page you want to bookmark.
2.Press Menu  .
3.Under Page, select Add Bookmark (/A).
Ta p  t o  
view 
more 
pages 
						

							Section 6
142 Application-Specific Tasks
 
 
4.Hold Option   and press Return   to finish. 
Ti p :  You can also add a bookmark by tapping an empty bookmark slot in 
the Bookmark view and entering a Name, Description, and URL for the 
page you want to bookmark.
To define a bookmark:
1.
From the Bookmark view, press Menu  .
2.Under Bookmark, select Add Bookmark (/A).
Ti p :  You can also open the New Bookmark dialog box by tapping an empty bookmark slot.
3.Enter a Name, Description, and URL for the page you want to 
bookmark.
4.Hold Option   and press Return   to finish. 
Tap an 
empty 
slot