Recovering Data; Using The Typing Timer - Alphasmart NEO User Manual

Recovering Data

U s i n g t h e T y p i n g T i m e r
NEOs also include
the KeyWords
SmartApplet, which
you can use to learn typing
skills or to teach your
students. For more about this
SmartApplet, see the NEO
SmartApplet User Manual on
your NEO Documentation CD.
NEO and NEO 2 by AlphaSmart
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If you clear a file, and you haven't deleted a file or entered new text in a file,
you may be able to recover text you've cleared by following these steps:
1. Make sure you're in the file number that the file you want to recover was
open in. The screen appears blank.
2. Press option-z-r.
The file should reappear onscreen. If it doesn't, you can try an emergency
recovery, which may place "garbage" characters in your file that you later
have to remove. Follow these steps to perform an emergency recovery of the
entire file:
1. Make sure you're in the file number that the file you want to recover was
open in. The screen appears blank.
2. Press shift-ctrl-option-z-r. Your file should reappear, possibly along with
a quantity of garbage characters.
3. Scroll to the location where the garbage characters begin and press shift-
end to select from the cursor to the end of the file; then, press delete.
The Typing Timer is a tool you can use to evaluate typing proficiency. It lets
you perform any keyboarding exercise in an AlphaWord Plus file, and when it
is stopped, it displays the elapsed time and words per minute (WPM) typed.
You can't delete characters while using the Typing Timer so you can see any
mistakes you made in the text when you finish. Pressing backspace while
using the Typing Timer has no effect. (Note that the final WPM result doesn't
subtract for errors made while typing.) You can edit the text you type after
turning off the Typing Timer.
Follow these steps to use the Typing Timer:
1. Choose where you want to start the typing timer. You can start in an
empty file or clear the current file so it is empty. If you want to use a file
that already has text in it, place the cursor where you want to start the
Typing Timer.
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