Creating A Note - HP 39gs Master Manual

C r e a t i n g a N o t e
C r e a t i n g a N o t e
Let's create a small Note containing some commonly used formulas.
Press
SHIFT NOTEPAD
shown right. Yours will probably be empty.
Notepad Catalog
The keys at the bottom of the screen allow you to
Note, create a one or to
Note is deleted using the
Press the key to begin a fresh Note. You will be presented with
the screen on the right, requesting that you enter a name for the Note.
Names can be any length and can contain any characters, alphabetic,
numeric, spaces as well as any from the
name is longer than 14 characters it will be truncated in the display
because of the space taken up by the indication of how much memory is
used. When you press
blank screen waiting for you to begin typing in your Note.
ALPHA
Locking mode
Before we begin, a word about making your typing easier. The normal
method to enter an alphabetical character is to use the
Lowercase letters are obtained by pressing SHIFT first. The
while you type with the other, but this isn't convenient and lowercase can't be locked this way. Space can be
obtained via
ALPHA SPACE
At the bottom of the screen in the Notepad view you will see screen keys
labeled ,
then all the keys from then on will type their alphabetic values rather
than their normal mathematical functions. Pressing the
before the key will lock it into lowercase rather than into
uppercase. Pressing the
key is there purely for your convenience since it is also on the keyboard.
Use the keys discussed above to type in the screen shown on the right.
The arrow keys can be used to move around in the text and insert or
delete characters.
The and the normal
Pressing the key deletes the character at the cursor, whereas
removes the character before the cursor.
(not ) and you will see the
SHIFT NOTE
and
key, while the
DEL SHIFT CLEAR
CHARS
after typing in the name, you will see a
ENTER
, with located above the
SPACE
and (backspace). If you press
key again disengages it. The
key are used to remove characters.
an existing
Notes to or from another calculator (or a computer). A
key will delete all Notes in the catalog.
menu. However, if the
key.
ALPHA
key can be held down with one hand
ALPHA
key.
key first
SHIFT
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