record on the screen. Your smartphone has a self-portrait mirror next to the camera lens on the back of your smartphone. Use the mirror when you’re recording a video and you want to be in the video. 9 (Optional) To review the video in Windows Media Player Mobile, press Thumbnails (left softkey), highlight the video, and then press Centre . Press Back to return to Thumbnail View.
YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC CHAPTER 9 When sending pictures in email, use this picture size: Sets the size of pictures you send in an email message. When rotating a picture, rotate 90 degrees: Sets the direction in which pictures rotate. 5 Select Slide Show and set any of the following options: 156 CAMERA During slide shows, optimise for viewing: Sets whether pictures are optimised for portrait or landscape format during slide shows.
6 Select Camera and set any of the following options: Save files to: Specifies whether pictures and videos are stored on your smartphone or on an expansion card. Type filename prefix: Assigns a name to a series of pictures to be captured, such as Seattle001, Seattle002, and so on. Still image compression level: Sets the default quality and size for newly captured still pictures.
CHAPTER 9 YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC In addition to viewing the pictures you capture with the built-in camera, you can view pictures captured on many popular digital cameras or downloaded from the Internet. Your smartphone supports the following picture formats: • • JPG PNG • BMP • GIF 1 Press Home , and then press Start (left softkey). 2 Navigate to the Recent Photos content list 3 If the picture you want appears on the list, select it.
Viewing a slide show 1 Press Home , and then press Start (left softkey). 2 Navigate to the Recent Photos content list and press All Photos (right softkey). 3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Play Slide Show. The slide show plays automatically. 4 Press Back to stop the slide show and return to Thumbnail View. Sending a picture or video You can send a picture or video to other picture-enabled mobile smartphone devices or to an email address as an attachment.
CHAPTER 9 YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC 3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select New Folder. Organising your pictures and videos You can move or copy pictures and videos to other folders or between your smartphone and an expansion card. 1 Highlight the picture or video you want to move or copy. 2 Do one of the following: • • To move the picture or video to another location, press Menu (right softkey) and select Edit > Cut.
Editing a picture • For more extensive edits, just download your picture or video to your computer and edit it in your favourite graphics program. Then sync the picture or video back to your smartphone. To cancel all unsaved edits you made to the picture, press Menu (right softkey) and select Cancel. • To save the edited picture with a new file name, press Menu (right softkey), select Save As, enter a name for the picture, and press Done (left softkey). 1 Select the picture you want to edit.
CHAPTER 9 YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC Windows Media Player Mobile Windows Media Player Mobile can play music, audio, and video files that are stored on your smartphone or on an expansion card (sold separately) in any of the following file formats: • WMA • WMV • MP3 • 3GP • AAC • AAC+ • MPEG-4 video thumbnail after synchronising the files. You can listen to these music, audio, and video files through the speaker on the back of your smartphone or through stereo headphones.
installed on your computer before you install ActiveSync desktop software. If you don’t already have Windows Media Player 10 or later installed on your Windows XP computer, you can download it from www.microsoft.com. Windows Media Player 11 is installed on Windows Vista computers by default. TIP • To sync media files with your computer, set the Media sync option on your smartphone (see Changing which applications sync). 1 On your computer, open Windows Media Player.
YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC CHAPTER 9 Shuffle/Repeat > Shuffle: Plays the Now Playing playlist in random order. A check appears next to this command when it is on. Shuffle/Repeat > Repeat: Plays the Now Playing playlist repeatedly. A check appears next to this command when it is on. 4 Select the library you want to use. If you can’t find a media file on your expansion card, update the library (see Working with libraries).
indicates the rating of the current file. You can play streaming files from the web. To play an MMS (Microsoft Media Streaming) file, press Menu on the Library screen and select Open URL. Select URL and enter the website address, or select History and select a site you’ve visited before. DID YOU KNOW? DID YOU KNOW? If you close the Windows Media Player Mobile window, your music continues to play in the background. 1 Press Home , and then press Start (left softkey).
CHAPTER 9 YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC songs for when you exercise and a playlist of soothing songs for a long flight. When you synchronise, your favourite playlists are automatically copied to your smartphone. Your playlists appear in your libraries (in the My Playlists category). 2 Do any of the following: A temporary playlist, called Now Playing, appears on the Now Playing menu. It lists the currently playing file, as well as any files that are queued up to play next.
Customising Windows Media Player Mobile 1 If you are on any screen other than the Player screen, press Back to go to the Playback screen. 2 Press Menu select Options. (right softkey) and 3 Select Playback and set any of the following options. Press Done (left softkey) when you have finished. Resume playback after a phone call: Sets whether playback continues after you finish a phone call. 9 CHAPTER YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC 4 Select Video and set any of the following options.
CHAPTER 9 YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC Mobile. Press Done when you have finished. (left softkey) 7 Select Skins and press Right or Left to set the player’s background. Press Done (left softkey) when you have finished. • To assign a button, highlight the item you want to set, press Menu (right softkey), and then select Assign.Press the button you want to use for that item. • To restore an item’s factory setting, highlight the item, press Menu (right softkey), and then select Reset.
• You must subscribe to the Mobile TV service; additional fees apply. Contact your network operator. • Make sure your phone is on and that you’re inside a coverage area (see “Turning your phone on” on page 22). 9 CHAPTER YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC 1 Press Home , and then press Start (left softkey). 2 Navigate to the live! content list and select Mobile TV. 3 Select the channel you want to watch. Repeat steps 1-3 to switch to a different channel.
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CHAP TE R 10 Your personal information organiser Say good-bye to paper calendars and throw away those scribbled to-do lists. Your Palm® Treo™ 500v smartphone is all you need to organise your personal information and keep it with you wherever you go. You never lose your information, even if your battery is completely drained. All your personal information is backed up each time you synchronise, and your information is kept private when you use the security features available on your smartphone.
In this chapter Contacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Voice Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contacts Adding a contact 1 Press Home , and then press Right to open the Favourite Contacts content list. 2 Press All Contacts 3 Press New If you have set up a Windows Live account (see Using Windows Live), you can save the contact as a Windows Live contact. A Windows Live contact synchronises with your Hotmail contacts list but not with Microsoft Outlook on your computer. TIP (right softkey). (left softkey).
CHAPTER 10 YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ORGANISER Take some time to scroll down through all the fields in a new contact. There are fields for multiple addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and much more. TIP Be sure to enter mobile numbers and email addresses in the correct fields so that Messaging can find this info when you address a message and Calendar can find your contacts when you want to invite them to meetings.
• One or more letters of the first and last name separated by a space • Phone number (be sure to press Option twice to turn on Option Lock before entering a phone number) You can type letters from the last name first; for example, typing “S J” or “Smi Joh” also finds “John Smith.” TIP DID YOU KNOW? The search function offers several features that make it easy to find the contact you want, even if you are not sure of the exact name: 1) Search results include name variations, such as “David” for “Dave.
CHAPTER 10 YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ORGANISER 2 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Delete Contact. 3 Press Yes the deletion. You can add up to 10 contacts to the Favourite Contacts list so that you can quickly access them. 1 Press Home , and then press Right to open the Favourite Contacts content list. 2 Select Add a Favourite. 3 Select the contact you want to add and press Centre .
4 Press Menu (right softkey) and select one of the following options: Beam a contact to a nearby Bluetooth device: Select Send Contact > Beam, select the device, and then press Beam (left softkey). Send a text message containing the contact information: Select Send Contact > Text Message. Select which contact information you want to send and press Done (left softkey). Address the text message and press Send (left softkey).
CHAPTER 10 YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ORGANISER appointments are bold; past appointments are dimmed. Go to Date: Shows your daily schedule in day-planner format. This view displays a horizontal time strip at the top to show at a glance when you have appointments. DID YOU KNOW? If your schedule contains a conflict—two appointments that overlap—you can see the conflict in Today View, Date View, and Week View. TIP To switch views, press the left softkey.
Adding an alarm reminder to an event Creating an untimed event You can use the Reminder list to set an alarm for an event when you create the event. You can also add an alarm to an event later, after you have created it. An untimed event, such as a birthday, anniversary, or vacation, does not occur at a particular time of day. These events appear as banners at the top of your calendar; they don’t occupy blocks of time. For example, “Submit Final Draft” in the screenshot shown below is an untimed event.
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ORGANISER CHAPTER 10 To enter a birthday or an anniversary, create an untimed event that repeats every year. TIP 4 Press Done (left softkey). Sending a meeting request 3 Enter a subject (description). 4 Select the starting and ending dates. Do not enter anything in the Start time or End time field. 5 Check the All day event box. 6 Press Done (left softkey). Scheduling a repeating appointment 1 Create an appointment or untimed event, and then select it.
4 (Optional) To invite an optional attendee, select Add Optional Attendee, and then select the name. DID YOU KNOW? If you are using Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 2, you can use your corporate Global Address List to find contact information for an attendee. On the contact list, select Company Directory, and then select the name of the contact you want to invite. 5 Press Done (left softkey). The next time you synchronise, the meeting request is sent to the attendees.
CHAPTER 10 YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ORGANISER Confidential: Displays the event on your smartphone and on your computer. Meeting attendees or recipients see “Please treat this as Confidential” near the top of an open appointment. If you don’t see an option on the screen, press Down on the 5-way to scroll to other options. For example, when editing an event, you don’t see the Sensitivity option until you scroll toward the bottom of the entry. TIP 4 Press Done (left softkey).
Send meeting requests via: Specifies the email account used to send meeting requests. 3 Press Done (left softkey). Sending an appointment 1 Press Home , and then press Start (left softkey). 2 Navigate to the Upcoming Events content list and press All Events (right softkey). 3 Highlight the contact you want to send. 4 and select one of the following options: Beam an appointment to a nearby Bluetooth device: Select the appointment you want to send. Press Menu (right softkey) and select Beam Appointment.
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ORGANISER CHAPTER 10 Reminder: Sets an alarm for this task and indicates when you want to be reminded. Categories: Assigns the task to one or more categories. Sensitivity: Marks this task as Normal, Personal, Private, or Confidential. Notes: Enables you to enter additional text for the task. Priority: Specifies the priority level for this task. Later you can arrange your tasks based on the importance of each task. Status: Indicates whether the task is now completed.
10 CHAPTER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ORGANISER Deleting a task 1 Highlight the task you want to delete. 2 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Delete Task. 3 Press Yes the deletion. (left softkey) to confirm Customising Tasks 1 Go to the Tasks list. 2 Press Complete DID YOU KNOW? (left softkey). Overdue tasks appear in red. Organising your tasks 1 In the Tasks list, press Menu (right softkey) and select Filter.
CHAPTER 10 YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ORGANISER Voice Notes Renaming a voice note Voice notes are a great way to capture thoughts, questions, and meeting notes on your smartphone. 2 Press Menu select Rename. (right softkey) and 3 Enter a new name for the note. Recording a voice note 4 Press Done 1 Press Home Centre . Deleting a voice note , and then press (left softkey). 2 Select Applications , and then select Organiser & Tools . 1 Highlight the voice note you want to delete.
CHAP TE R 11 Your Microsoft Office and other document tools Your Palm® Treo™ 500v smartphone enables you to take your office with you—including your Microsoft Office files. With Microsoft Office, you can carry, view, and manage Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on your smartphone. You can keep updated copies of the files on both your smartphone and your computer so that you can work on them in the most convenient location at any time.
In this chapter Synchronising your Microsoft Office files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Word Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 PowerPoint Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Excel Mobile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 PDF Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Synchronising your Microsoft Office files NOTE Most ActiveSync desktop software You can create and edit Microsoft Office files on your computer on your smartphone and then synchronise the files so that changes you make show up on both your computer and your smartphone.
CHAPTER 11 YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS 3 Under Information Type, double-click Files to view a list of all synchronised files. If Files doesn’t appear under Information Type, open the Tools menu and select Options. Make sure the Files box is checked. The Documents on username’s Smartphone folder is created when you select the option to sync Files.
Windows Vista: Open the Documents\ Documents on username’s Smartphone folder. On your smartphone, you can find the synchronised file by doing either of the following: • • Press Home , and then press Centre . Select Applications , press More (left softkey), and then select Office Mobile . Select the application that opens the file: Word Mobile , Excel Mobile , or PowerPoint Mobile . Press Home , and then press Centre . Select My Files .
CHAPTER 11 YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS To open a file on an expansion card, press Menu (right softkey) and select Storage Card. TIP To zoom in or out of an open document, press View (left softkey) and select the zoom level.
Saving a copy of a document NOTE If a document was previously saved or in list format. You can also choose how documents are sorted. 2 Press Menu (right softkey) and select File > Save As. The options you choose apply to files within the selected folder only. When you select a folder, all items in that folder— including any subfolders and other types of files—are displayed or sorted according to the options you select. 3 Select Name and enter a new name for the file. 1 Press Home Centre .
CHAPTER 11 YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS To sort documents in a different folder, select My Device or My Files and navigate to the folder you want. TIP 7 To change the documents list display, press Menu (right softkey) and select View. Select Icons or List. 8 To change the sort criteria, press Menu (right softkey) and select Sort By. Select the sort option you want: Name, Date, Size, or Type.
7 (Optional) If the softkey text labels are hidden, press the right or left softkey to display the labels, and then do either of the following: • • Press Menu (right softkey), select Go to Slide, and then select the slide you want to view. Press Menu (right softkey) and select Zoom In or Zoom Out. To show web addresses as underlined hyperlinks, press Menu (right softkey) and select Show Links. TIP 8 Press End the show.
CHAPTER 11 YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS To turn the presentation into a continuously looping slide show, check both the Use timings and the Loop continuously boxes. TIP To customize your presentation playback, press Menu (right softkey); select Custom; and then select the slides you want to include, the order of slides, and so on. Custom slide show is not available for all presentations.
smallest) order, press Menu (right softkey) and select the same sort option. Saving a copy of a presentation If you select Main memory, the presentation is saved to the My Files folder on your smartphone by default. After the file is saved, you can move it to a different folder if you want (see Finding information). TIP 11 CHAPTER YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS NOTE If a presentation was previously saved on a computer, any unsupported formatting may be lost when you save the file.
CHAPTER 11 YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS To open a file on an expansion card, press Menu (right softkey) and select Storage Card. TIP DID YOU KNOW? By default, the softkey labels such as Menu are hidden when you open a workbook, so you need to press the right or left softkey once to display them, and then press Menu (right softkey) to open the menu.
Show: Indicates whether headings and scroll bars appear onscreen. To jump to a cell or region, press Menu (right softkey) and select Go To. (In Edit mode, select Tools > Go To.) Select Cell reference or name and enter the target cell info. Press OK (left softkey). TIP If you want to create a new workbook, open an existing workbook and save it with a new name (see Saving a copy of a workbook).
CHAPTER 11 YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS 4 Select the Category list, and then select the type of function you want to insert. 5 Select the Function list, and then select the specific function you want to insert. 6 Press OK (left softkey). 7 Enter any values needed in the function. 8 Press Done (left softkey). (left softkey). Adding cells, rows, or columns 1 Open the workbook you want. 2 If the softkey text labels are hidden, press the right or left softkey to display the labels.
Entire column: Inserts the same number of new columns as the number of cells you selected horizontally in step 2—for example, if you selected an area containing two cells horizontally (say, A1 and B1), selecting Entire column inserts two columns; so the original columns A and B (and their contents) are now columns C and D. The columns containing the selected area and all columns on the right move the same number of columns—two in this example—to the right.
CHAPTER 11 YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS 6 Navigate to the area where you want to insert the cells, rows, or columns. 7 Press Menu select Paste, (right softkey) and Entire column: Deletes the entire column(s) in which the highlighted cells are located, and moves all columns on their right to the left. NOTE Excel Mobile adjusts formulas to Deleting cells, rows, or columns 1 Open the workbook containing the elements you want to delete.
Sorting info in a worksheet Finding info in a workbook 1 Open the workbook containing the elements you want to delete. 1 Open the workbook containing the info you want to find. 2 If the softkey text labels are hidden, press the right or left softkey to display the labels. 2 If the softkey text labels are hidden, press the right or left softkey to display the labels. 3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Edit Mode. 3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Find.
CHAPTER 11 YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS Saving a copy of a workbook PDF Viewer NOTE If a workbook was previously saved on a computer, any unsupported formatting may be lost when you save the file. 1 Open the workbook you want to copy. 2 If the softkey text labels are hidden, press the right or left softkey to display the labels. 3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select File > Save As. 4 Select Name and enter a new name for the file.
11 CHAPTER YOUR MICROSOFT OFFICE AND OTHER DOCUMENT TOOLS 5 Press Up , or Down through the file. to scroll 6 (Optional) To zoom in or out, press Zoom (right softkey) and select the zoom level. Select Page Width to resize the file so that the width of the file matches the width of the screen. 7 When you have finished viewing the file press File (left softkey) and select Close. To view detailed information about PDF Viewer, press File (left softkey) and select About.
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CHAP TE R 12 Your application and info management tools Your Palm® Treo™ 500v smartphone comes equipped with a variety of tools for managing and organising your information. Get the most out of your smartphone: Install business, education, or leisure-time applications available. After you use your smartphone to create or capture important business and personal information, use one of several options to share the info with others.
In this chapter Finding information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Installing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Removing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Sharing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Beaming information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finding information Quickly find who or what you’re looking for by using one of these search features: • Lookup: Find and dial your contacts by name or phone number. See Dialling by contact name for details. • My Files: Browse through the files and folders on your smartphone or on an expansion card. • Global Address List Lookup: Look up names in your online corporate address list.
YOUR APPLICATION AND INFO MANAGEMENT TOOLS CHAPTER 12 required for your smartphone to function properly. Show list Sort by list When the items in a folder are displayed, you can sort them by name, date, size, or type. Press Menu (right softkey), select Sort by, and then select the sort method. • To send an item, highlight the item, press Menu (right softkey) and select Beam to send to another nearby Bluetooth device, or select Send and select the method you want to use the send the item.
Applications you download to your computer are likely to be in a compressed format such as ZIP. If the file is compressed, you need to use a decompression utility on your computer, such as WinZip, to decompress the file before you install the application on your smartphone. • Apps designed for Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Professional or any edition of Windows Mobile 5.x software are not compatible with your smartphone.
CHAPTER 12 YOUR APPLICATION AND INFO MANAGEMENT TOOLS 1 Make sure your phone is on and that you are in a coverage area (see Turning your phone on). 2 Download the application file you want to install (see Downloading files and images from a web page). 3 When the download has finished, press Home , and then press Centre . 4 Select My Files . 5 Select the file you downloaded to start the installation program.
desktop software: Windows XP or Installing Windows Mobile Device Center: Windows Vista). you install; you cannot remove the built-in applications that reside in the Read-Only Memory (ROM) portion of your smartphone. 1 Insert the expansion card into the expansion card slot (see Inserting and removing expansion cards). 1 Press Home , and then press Start (left softkey). 2 Connect your smartphone to your computer using the USB sync cable.
CHAPTER 12 YOUR APPLICATION AND INFO MANAGEMENT TOOLS 5 Press Menu select Remove. 6 Press Yes the deletion. 7 Press Done (right softkey) and • You can attach a picture, video, or sound file to a multimedia message (see Creating and sending a multimedia message). • You can synchronise to share info between your smartphone and your computer or between your smartphone and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or 2007 (see Synchronising information).
