Moving around on your

Palm

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Treo

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680 smartphone

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Have you ever been to a new city and felt a bit lost until you figured out that the numbered streets run north/south and the avenues run east/west? Learning to move around on your smartphone is similar. Most Palm OS ® applications use the same set of controls. So once you learn how to use these controls on your Palm ® Treo ™ 680 smartphone, you’ll be driving all over town and you won’t even need a map.

Benefits

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Find and open applications quickly

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Access extra features with menus

Move around in applications with one hand, using the 5-way navigator

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Access many more characters and symbols than are displayed on the keyboard

In this chapter

Moving around the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Using the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Opening applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Moving around the screen

To move around the Treo 680 screen, you can use the 5-way navigator for one-handed navigation, or you can tap items on the screen with the stylus. With use, you will find your own favorite way to scroll, highlight, and select menu items.

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Some third-party applications may not work with the 5-way navigator, and you must use the stylus instead

DID YOU KNOW ?

In this guide, we use arrow icons to indicate directions on the 5-way.

These are different from any onscreen arrows that you tap with your stylus or select with the

5-way to display pick lists.

The 5-way includes the following buttons:

Center

Left

Up

Down

Right

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Highlighting and selecting items

On most screens, one item—a button, a list entry, or a check box—is highlighted by default. The highlight identifies which item is affected by your next action. Use Left ,

Right , , and Down on the

5-way to move the highlight from one item to another.

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If the item you want doesn’t appear on the screen, try tapping the onscreen scroll arrows to view more info.

Learn to recognize the highlight. It can take two forms:

Border glow: When an entire screen, an onscreen button (such as Done, New, or

OK), or a pick list is highlighted, a glow appears around its border. If an entire screen is highlighted, the glow appears at the top and bottom of the screen only.

Colored background: When a phone number, text, an email address, a web link, or an item in a list is highlighted, the item is displayed as white text against a colored background. Examples of lists include the

Contacts list, the Messaging Inbox, and the

Tasks list.

After highlighting an item, you can select or

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When a border appears at the top and bottom of a list screen, press Center on the

5-way to highlight the first item in the list.

tapping the item with the stylus.

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After you open an application (see

Opening applications), experiment with using

the 5-way to highlight various screen elements.

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Highlighting text

You can use the stylus to highlight text on the screen.

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Tap and drag the stylus across the text you want to highlight.

To highlight a word, double-tap it.

To highlight a paragraph, triple-tap it.

Selecting menu items

Many applications have menus to give you access to additional features. These menus are usually hidden from view, but they appear when you press Menu . To get the most out of your smartphone, it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with the additional features available through the various application menus.

Accessing command buttons

In most applications, command buttons such as New, OK, and Details appear at the bottom of the screen. In many cases, you can jump directly to these buttons instead of scrolling to them.

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1 Press Menu to display an application’s menus.

From a list screen, such as the Memos list, press Right to jump to the first button.

From a screen where you create or edit entries, such as Contact Edit, press

Center to jump to the first button.

From a dialog box, such as Edit

Categories, press Up to scroll to the buttons.

between menus.

Menu shortcut menu item.

4 Press Center to select the menu item, or press Menu to close the menu and cancel your selection.

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Most menu items have menu shortcuts listed in the menu. To use a menu shortcut, press Menu plus the shortcut letter. You don’t have to see the menu item to use the menu shortcut. For example, when you’re in

Calendar, you can press Menu + N to create a new event.

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To exit the pick list without making a or .

Stylus: Use your stylus to tap the pick list.

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Tap the item you want from the list.

To exit the pick list without making a selection, tap outside the list.

Selecting options in a pick list

A range of options is often presented in a type of menu called a pick list, which can be identified by a downward-pointing arrow. Pick lists are different from the application menus previously described.

The application menus give you access to additional features and pick lists let you select the contents for a particular field.

You can select items from a pick list with the 5-way or the stylus.

5-way: Use the 5-way to highlight the display the items in the list.

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• the item you want.

Press Center highlighted item. to select the

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Using the keyboard

Backlight

Backspace

Return

Menu

Option

Shift/Find

Space

NOTE Your keyboard may have a different layout based on the country where you purchased your smartphone.

Alt

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When using the keyboard, most people find it easiest to hold the Treo with two hands and use the tips of both thumbs to press the keys.

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To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift/

Find twice. To turn it off, press

Shift/Find once. When Caps Lock is on, an underlined up arrow appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.

DID YOU KNOW ?

The Treo 680 includes a keyboard backlight that turns on and off when the screen turns on or off. The backlight also dims when an active call lasts longer than a

specified period of time. See Optimizing power settings to adjust the automatic

shut-off and dimming intervals.

Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols

Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above the letters on the keys.

To enter these characters, do one of the following:

Entering lowercase and uppercase letters

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To enter lowercase letters, press the desired keys.

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To enter an uppercase letter, press

Shift/Find and then press a letter key. You don’t need to press and hold

Shift/Find while entering a letter.

When Shift is active, an up arrow appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.

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To turn Option Lock on, press Option

twice. To turn it off, press Option

once. When Option Lock is on, the

Symbol

Letter

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Press Option , and then press the key with the desired character shown above the letter. You don’t need to press and hold Option while pressing the second key. When Option is active, the symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.

symbol appears in the lower-right corner of the screen.

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DID YOU KNOW ?

Some application views automatically default to Option Lock, such as the Dial Pad tab in the Phone application or the Calculator. In this case, you do not need to press Option to enter numbers.

1 Enter the character that corresponds to the symbol or accented character you want. See the table on the next page.

2 Press Alt .

Entering other symbols and accented characters

Symbols and accented characters that do not appear on the keyboard are available by using the Alt key.

to highlight the desired character.

4 Press Center character.

to insert the

DID YOU KNOW ?

Alternate characters are grouped by their similarity to the base key. For example, the alternate characters for the e key are é, è, ë, and ê.

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Symbols and accented characters

Enter… b or B c i

E

C e a

A

Then press

Alt to select…

á à ä â ã å æ

Á À Ä Â Ã Å Æ

ß

ç ¢ ©

Ç ¢ ©

é è ë ê

É È Ë Ê

í ì ï î

Enter… n

N o

O s

S p or P r or R t or T

Then press

Alt to select…

ñ

Ñ

¶

®

ß š

ß Š

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Enter… u

U

ó ò ö ô œ õ x or X

Ó Ò Ö Ô Œ Õ y

:

?

Y

!

$

Then press

Alt to select…

ú ù ü û

Ú Ù Ü Û x ¤

ý ÿ

Ý Ÿ

¡

¿

:-) :-( ;-)

£ ¥ ¢ I l or L

Í Ì Ï Î

£

Press Alt by itself, after a space or at the beginning or end of a line, to select these characters:

; _ • \ % = ° ÷ £ ¥ ¢ [ ] { } < > « » © ® ™ ~ ^ ø |

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Opening applications

When you open an application using a quick button or Applications View, you automatically close the app you were previously using.

Using the quick buttons

The front of the Treo 680 has three quick buttons—Phone, Calendar, and

Messaging—that open applications. The fourth button opens Applications View (see

Using Applications View).

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You can customize the quick buttons

yourself; see Reassigning buttons for details.

Phone

Calendar

Applications

Messaging

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Each of quick button opens two applications:

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To access a button’s primary application, simply press the button.

Using Applications View

You can access all available applications through Applications View.

1 Press Applications .

Button Primary app

Phone

Calendar

Messaging

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If prompted, press Center on the 5-way to

turn off Keyguard (see Locking your keyboard

(Keyguard) for more info).

2 Use the 5-way to highlight the application you want to use.

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To access a button’s secondary application, press Option and then press the quick button.

Buttons

+

+

+

Secondary app

Web

Memos

Email

DID YOU KNOW ?

Pressing Option + Menu dims your smartphone screen.

3 Press Center application.

to open the selected

In Applications View, you can also do any of the following:

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Press Applications repeatedly to cycle through various categories of

applications. See Applications settings

for more info on categories.

Enter the first few letters of the application’s name to highlight it. For example, if you press P, it highlights

Phone; if you then press R, it highlights

Prefs. If you pause and then press R, it highlights the first application that starts with R.

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