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5. Tap OK.
Setting an alarm for an event
The Alarm setting enables you to set an audible alarm for events in
your Date Book. You can set an alarm to sound minutes, hours, or
days before an event. The default Alarm setting is 5 minutes before the
time of the event, but you can change this to any number of minutes,
hours, or days.
When you set an alarm, this icon
event with the alarm. When the alarm tone sounds, a reminder
message also appears onscreen.
To set an alarm for an event:
1. Tap the event to which you want to assign an alarm, then tap
Details.
2. Tap the Alarm check box to select it.
The default setting, 5 Minutes, appears.
3. Tap the pick list to select Minutes, Hours, or Days.
4. Select the 5 and enter any number from 0 to 99 (inclusive) as the
number of time units, then tap OK.
Alarm for untimed events
In this case, the alarm triggers at the specified period of minutes,
hours, or days before midnight (beginning) of the day of the untimed
event. No audible alarm sounds for an untimed event; instead, the
reminder message appears onscreen.
For example, you set an alarm for an untimed event that occurs on
February 4th. If the alarm is set for 5 minutes, the reminder message
appears at 11:55 PM on the night of February 3rd. The reminder
remains onscreen until you turn on your organizer and tap OK to
dismiss it.
Chapter 4
Enter number of
time units here
Tap here to
select unit of time
: You can set a silent alarm for an untimed event.
appears to the far right of the
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