Alphasmart NEO, User Manual

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Beyond Basics 83
Tips for working with your applications
Tips for working with your
applications
Much of this guide describes sending your text to a word processing
application on your computer, but you can send text to any
application that accepts text:
• Multimedia text fields
• Text tools in a page layout or graphics application
• Email applications
• Spreadsheets
Wherever you would normally type text in your application, you can
easily send text from Neo by placing your cursor at the appropriate
location in your application and pressing
send
.
Sending text to a spreadsheet
Spreadsheets keep track of information in columns and rows. On
Neo, you might set up some of your data in AlphaWord Plus using
tabs and returns to eventually transfer into a spreadsheet application
on your computer.
You can transfer text directly into a spreadsheet without formatting
problems if you beam it. However, for some spreadsheet
applications, transferring the text (if it contains tabs and carriage
returns) using a USB cable doesn’t produce the desired results. If
your text doesn’t appear in columns as you’d expect, try sending the
text to a word processing application first. Then select the text in the
word processing application, copy it, and paste it into your
spreadsheet file. The paste operation usually produces more
desirable results.
Tip!
In general, if you’re having formatting problems with text
you’ve sent from your Neo, try sending it first to a word