Howsimonworks - IBM Simon User Manual

3.
Touch New Entry.
An Address
Book form will
appear in the upper half
of
the screen.
The
PredictaKey' keyboard appears
in
the
lower
half.
Learn about
PredictaKey.
Simon
has three keyboards that you can
use to
enter
information:
PredictaKey,
a
numeric
<e1cad. and a standard
keyboard. you
can
::-:,:se
:he
keyboard that you like
by touching
:-E r.te--
!;:on
on any keyboard.
Then
touch
:e
(si=ca-is sr:on.
and
make
your
selection.
F:,: nrcre iniomaion.
see -Using
Keyboards,,
on
page 67.
For this
practice.
iry
using
PredictaKey,
developed
especially
to
make
typing easy on
Simon.
The PredictaKey keyboard always shows
the
six most-likely
letters
that you need,
depending
on the characters you've just
typed.
lf you
don,t
see the letter you need, touch the Other
button
and you will see the next most-likely
letters.
lf
you type a letter accidentally, backspace
with
the Bks
key.
To type one capital
letter,
touch Caps
once.
For
Caps
lock, touch Caps again.
To
unlock
Caps, touch Caps one
more
time.
For
punctuation, touch the punctuation (?,!)
button.
A second touch will lock
it.
For
numbers, touch
the number (123) button.
lt
locks
automatically.
To type letters again, touch the letters
(ABC)
button.
To move to the next field in a form, touch
Enter.
You can also move
the cursor (the line
that
shows where typed
letters
will appear)
directly
by
touching the
screen
with the stylus
where
you want to
type.
lf you touch
a
field
name, the
cursor will appear
in
the first typing position for
that
field.
For
this
exercise
type the last
name
of
Smith.
The cursor should
be
at LAST>. lf
it
isn't, touch
LAST
to
move
the cursor
there.
Touch
Caps,
S, Other button, m,
i,
t, h, and Enter.
Then
type the first name of
Simon.
Touch Caps, S,
i,
m, o, and
n.
To enter a phone number
of
555-1234,
touch Phone'l (the
cursor will
jump
to
Phonel
in
the form), (123) button, 555-1234,
and
Done.
Select the Home
button
from
the
pop-up that lists phone number
labels.
Now
you see the information in the new
entry.
Notice
that the options that are available to you
are in boxes with solid lines and the
options
that are not available at this time have a
broken
line
border.
From
this screen you can
change
or
erase
the
entry.
You can touch the
Dial
Home button to place a call.
You have
completed your first
Simon
form.
Most of
the
other features in Simon work this same
way.
Touch
Erase
to erase this
entry.
Touch
OK.
Touch the Mobile Office icon or the Phone
icon
to
leave
the Address
Book.
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