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Page 3 FCC Information for the USA Important Radio and Television Interference In the USA • • Emissions information for Canada • •...
Page 4 FCC Declaration of Conformity Infrared device safety • • CE marking...
Page 5 Contents...
Page 6 Contents...
Page 7 Contents...
Page 8 Contents...
Page 9 Contents...
Page 10 Contents...
Page 11 Contents...
Page 12 Getting started • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •...
Page 13 Getting started...
Page 14 Getting started...
Page 15 Getting started...
Page 16 Getting started • • • • • •...
Page 17 • • • • • Getting started...
Page 18: Getting Started
Getting started Fitting the batteries • • • • Take care when replacing batteries! Can I switch on the Series 5 by tapping the screen?
Page 19 Main batteries Backup battery Getting started...
Page 20 Getting started • •...
Page 21 Navigating between files & folders • • • • • Getting started...
Page 22 Getting started...
Page 23 Starting programs Programs & files • • • • • Getting started...
Page 24 Getting started Entering information Using dialogs • • • •...
Page 25 • Getting started...
Page 26 Getting started Dialog buttons How do I display a calendar? • • •...
Page 27 Copying information between programs • • • • Getting started...
Page 28 Getting started Displaying Help • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •...
Page 29 Getting started...
Page 30 Getting started • • • • • • Setting the time, date & the Home city...
Page 31 Getting started...
Page 32 Getting started Entering owner information • • •...
Page 33 Setting a system password Important: don’t forget your password! Getting started...
Page 34 Getting started • • • • • Which programs to use? • • • • •...
Page 35 Connecting the Series 5 to the PC • Using PsiWin • • • • • • Getting started...
Page 36 Getting started Backing up to a PC Exploring the Control panel • Making regular backups. Backing up to Memory Disks • •...
Page 37 • • • • Getting started...
Page 38 Files & folders • •...
Page 39 Files & folders...
Page 40 Files & folders • How can I see which files and programs are open? • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •...
Page 41 Files & folders...
Page 42 Files & folders What names can I use for my files & folders? • •...
Page 43 Important: Files & folders...
Page 44 Files & folders • • • • • • • • •...
Page 45 Files & folders...
Page 46 Files & folders Important: don’t forget your password!
Page 47 • • • • • • • Files & folders...
Page 48 Files & folders • Which files use the most memory? • • • •...
Page 49 • What will happen when the memory is full? • Can I run Series 3/3a/3c/3mx programs on a Series 5? Files & folders...
Page 50 Word...
Page 51 • • • • • • Word...
Page 52 Word • • • •...
Page 53 Aligning paragraphs Bullets & symbols • • Indents & tabs Special characters Word...
Page 54 Word • • • Paragraph borders Line spacing • • • • • • •...
Page 55 • Word...
Page 56 Word Defining styles • • • •...
Page 57 Moving around the document outline Word...
Page 58 Word • Inserting an “object” • •...
Page 59 Ÿ Ÿ Ÿ Word...
Page 60 Word Creating a template...
Page 61 Setting the “default” template. Word...
Page 62 Word...
Page 63 • • • • Page breaks • Word...
Page 64 Word Headers, footers & page numbers • •...
Page 65 Word...
Page 66 Sheet • •...
Page 67 • • • • • • • • • Sheet...
Page 68 Sheet • • • • • • •...
Page 69 • • Sheet...
Page 70 Sheet Recalculation • • • • Functions •...
Page 71 • • • • • Naming ranges • • • Sheet...
Page 72 Sheet Sorting from left to right Sorting from top to bottom...
Page 73 Sheet...
Page 74 Sheet Creating a graph...
Page 75 Replacing the graph range Graph type & appearance • • Adding a range to a graph • • Sheet...
Page 76 Sheet Adding titles, labels and grid lines Working with more than one graph • • • • • •...
Page 77 Sheet...
Page 78 Contacts • • How do I dial a telephone number? • •...
Page 79 Finding contacts Search tips. • • Contacts...
Page 80 Contacts Changing labels...
Page 81 • • • • Contacts...
Page 82 Contacts • • • • • • • • • • •...
Page 83 Contacts...
Page 84 Agenda What if I already use a PC scheduler?
Page 85 • • • • • • • Agenda...
Page 86 Agenda Timed & untimed entries Events • • “Pencilling in” a tentative entry • • •...
Page 87 • • • • • • Agenda...
Page 88 Agenda •...
Page 89 Will alarms still ring if I close Agenda? Agenda...
Page 90 Agenda Using the calendar • • •...
Page 91 Deleting entries & crossing out • • • • • Agenda...
Page 92 Agenda • •...
Page 93 Adding a to-do Agenda...
Page 94 Agenda Creating a new to-do list...
Page 95 Customising a To-do list • • • • Agenda...
Page 96 Agenda Attaching Word documents to entries...
Page 97 Attaching a sketch • • Attaching a “voice note” • • Agenda...
Page 98 Agenda • • • • “Tidying” an Agenda file • •...
Page 99 • • • • • • • Agenda...
Page 100 Agenda Synchronising entries with a PC scheduler...
Page 101 Agenda...
Page 102 Email • • • • • •...
Page 103 • • Email...
Page 104 Email • • • Can I include text formatting or pictures in a message? • •...
Page 105 • Saving unfinshed messages as drafts • • Email...
Page 106 Email • • •...
Page 107 italics How do I send Outbox messages automatically when I connect? Email...
Page 108 Email • • • • • • • • •...
Page 109 • • Can I stop messages being included in my reply? Email...
Page 110 Email • • •...
Page 111 To find out more • • • • • Important: Email...
Page 112 Calc • •...
Page 113 Using the memory • • • • • • • • • Calc...
Page 114 Calc Percentage calculations • • • • • • • • • •...
Page 115 • Operator precedence • • • • • • • Calc...
Page 116 Calc Re-using answers and calculations • Using the memories • •...
Page 117 • • Calc...
Page 118 Calc Powers, roots & reciprocals Trigonometric functions • • • • • • • • √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ • • √ √ √ √ √ •...
Page 119 Angle formats π • • Logarithms • • Factorials • Calc...
Page 120 Calc Exponent notation • • •...
Page 121 Calc...
Page 122 Jotter • •...
Page 123 • • • • • • • • • • • Starting Jotter with a blank entry. Jotter...
Page 124 Jotter •...
Page 125 • • • • • Jotter...
Page 126 Jotter Sorting entries • • •...
Page 127 • • • • • • • • Jotter...
Page 128 Time...
Page 129 Setting an alarm • • • Time...
Page 130 Time • • • • • Responding to an alarm • •...
Page 131 Silencing alarms Changing & deleting alarms • • Time...
Page 132 Time Viewing alarms...
Page 133 Selecting a country or city • Time...
Page 134 Time • Adding a town or city • •...
Page 135 Adding a country • • • • Time...
Page 136 Time When you travel...
Page 137 Time...
Page 138 Data...
Page 139 • • Data...
Page 140 Data • • •...
Page 141 • • • Data...
Page 142 Data • •...
Page 143 Data...
Page 144 Data Adding labels • • • • • • • • •...
Page 145 Data...
Page 146 Sketch • •...
Page 147 • • • • • What are pixels? • • • • Sketch...
Page 148 Sketch • • • • • • Selecting & moving objects •...
Page 149 Erasing & undoing • • • • Transparency • • • • Sketch...
Page 150 Sketch Changing colours Cutting out, cropping & re-sizing...
Page 151 Sketch...
Page 152 Sketch • • • • • • • Creating “wallpaper”.
Page 153 Sketch...
Page 154 Spell •...
Page 155 • • Spell...
Page 156 Spell...
Page 157 • • • • • • Spell...
Page 158 Record...
Page 159 • • • • • Record...
Page 160 Record...
Page 161 • • • Record...
Page 162 Record...
Page 163 Recording a voice note • • • • • Record...
Page 164 Record • • File sizes and compression •...
Page 165 Record...
Page 166 Bombs...
Page 167 How to play Scoring • • Bombs...
Page 168 Program •...
Page 169 Program...
Page 170 Printing • • • • • • • •...
Page 171 Printing using Infrared Printing to a serial printer Printing to a parallel printer Printing...
Page 172 Printing Printing to a file Using PsiWin to print via a PC...
Page 173 • • • • Printing...
Page 174 Printing • • •...
Page 175 Printing...
Page 176 Infrared Before you start.
Page 177 • • • • • • • • Infrared...
Page 178 Infrared...
Page 179 When the transfer is complete Cancelling the transfer If the transfer fails Infrared...
Page 180 Dialling • • •...
Page 181 Dialling...
Page 182 Dialling...
Page 183 • • • • Dialling...
Page 184 Customising • • • •...
Page 185 • • • Caution: • Customising...
Page 186 Care & safety • • ° • ° ° ° • • • • •...
Page 187 • • • • Batteries recommended by Psion: • • • • How do I check the battery power? Care & safety...
Page 188 Care & safety Rechargeable batteries • • • Important:...
Page 189 Care & safety...
Page 190 Care & safety Caution: • • ° ° ° • • • • • • •...
Page 191 Care & safety...
Page 192 Security & backups Backing up to Memory Disks Restoring files from a backup Backing up to a PC...
Page 193 Security & backups...
Page 194 Troubleshooting If world times don’t seem to be correct in the Time program If an alarm doesn’t ring...
Page 195 If a file appears to have “vanished” If the Series 5 doesn’t seem to turn on/turn off • • If you forget your password • Troubleshooting...
Page 196 Troubleshooting • How do I reset the Series 5? •...
Page 197 Troubleshooting...
Page 198 Troubleshooting If your pen doesn’t ’click’ into place...
Page 199 If you can’t connect your cable Troubleshooting...
Page 200 Appendices ™ ™...
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Page 202 Appendices × × ×...
Page 203 Appendices...
Page 204 Index appointments 75 programs 38 in Agenda 77, 78 birthdays in Agenda 77 scientific calculations 103 recording 173 calculations in Calc 102 text in Sketch 139 responding to 119 city 123 titles to graphs 65 setting 118 # sign clipart to a Sketch 140 to-do entries 82 troubleshooting 183 in Sheet 57...
Page 205 arrows backing up safety information 179 Busy view in Agenda 76 in menu commands 13 to a PC 5 types 7, 177, 191 buttons on dialog lines 13 to Memory disks 36 BCC in Email 93 external 150 assigning memories in Calc 105 backlight 9, 26 beaming.
Page 206 Index categories in Agenda. See entry character set 189 colours in Word 41 adding 67 symbols check box 13 column graphs 64 deleting 69 CC in Email 93 circles & ellipses 136 column widths editing 69 centred text in Word 42 cities 117 in Data 130 finding 68...
Page 207 changing details 124 Agenda entries 80 Data 127 country 124 deleting 124 in Word 41 dialling 171 Data entries 131 creating crossword clues 145 Infrared 166 emails 97 emails 93 cube roots in Calc 107 labels 171 files & folders 37 fax &...
Page 208 Index cancelling 15 Draft repeat entries in Agenda 81 embedding. See inserting moving between pages 14 folder 92, 94 electronic mail. See Email objects saving settings 15 draft Email 91 Enter key 15 dictating machine 150 emails 94 addresses 93, 97 entry symbols in Agenda 87 dictionaries in Spell 146 drawing...
Page 209 file manager 27 merging 87 text in Word 40 Outbox 92, 93, 94, 95 filenames 31, 36 naming 31 finding files 33, 184 selecting 36 files opening 29, 31, 33 fitting the batteries 7 Sent 92, 96 adding to emails 93, 99 passwords 35 Fixed number format 109 types in Email 92...
Page 210 Index objects in Jotter 114 in Word 47 hidden Inbox objects in Word 48 Infrared 166 files 174 folder 92, 96 paragraphs 41 grey labels in Data 130 indents in Word 42 text in Word 41 dialog lines 14 text in Word 43 Infrared 165 formulae 56 menu commands 13...
Page 211 IrObex standard 71 Help 17 gauge 37 italic text on & off 7 information 37 mail. See Email in Sheet 60 shortcuts 15 Memory Disks mailbox in Word 41 kilometres 124 backups 25, 181 connecting 95, 96 Memory disks 38 Local 96 displaying in System screen Remote 91, 94, 96, 100...
Page 212 Index moving non-breaking hyphen in Word opening page layout 162 Agenda entries 80 attachments 99 margins 162 Agenda files 36 non-breaking space in Word 43 draft emails 94 numbering 162 an area in Sketch 137 non-printing characters 43 emails 97 size of the page 162 Data files 36 Normal number format in Calc...
Page 213 Preferences to a file 161 ranges in Sheet 60 finding & using 9 Extras bar 174 to a parallel printer 160 re-sizing not locking 187 in Jotter 115 to a serial printer 160 objects in Jotter 114 pen colour in Sketch 135 in System screen 174 using Infrared 160 re-using...
Page 214 Index Relative references the background in Sketch files 29 an area in Sketch 137 in Sheet 59 Scientific number format 109 cities & countries 122 relative references in Sheet 59 responding to an alarm 119 Scientific view in Calc 103 cities in one country 123 reminders for Agenda entries 77 restoring backups 181...
Page 215 passwords on files 35 size anagrams 144 Spell program 143 screen contrast 9 of files 33 crossword clues 145 spray painting in Sketch 136 summer time 125 text on screen 9 sorting spreadsheets 55 system password 22 Sketch program 135 entries in Contacts 67 square roots in Calc 107 time &...
Page 216 Index summer time 125 System screen 27 setting default 50 Time program 117 sunrise and sunset times 125 introduction to 10 tentative entries in Agenda 75 timed entry in Agenda 75 superscript text 41 system settings 19 testing alarms 118 times 117 switching text...
Page 217 travelling 125 viewing world map 117 trigonometric functions 107 alarms 121 wrapping text turning on/off 7 attachments 99 in Word 40 emails 97 non-printing characters 42 entries in Data 129 writing. See creating views in Agenda 76 wysiwyg text 40 underlining voice note buttons 119 in Sheet 60...

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