Palm P80880US - Tungsten E - OS 5.2.1 126 MHz, Handbook

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Chapter 2 Exploring Your Handheld
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With your handheld turned on, you can tap the handheld screen to perform many
operations, such as the following:
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Open applications.
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Select menu commands.
■
Initiate a Find operation to search through applications installed on your
handheld for specific text. (Find operations do not search through applications
on expansion cards.)
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Select options in dialog boxes.
■
Open the onscreen keyboards.
Just as you can drag the mouse to select text or move objects on your computer, you
can drag the stylus to select text. You can also use the stylus to drag the slider of
any scroll bar.
Elements of the handheld interface
This section describes the common elements in the handheld interface.
Menu bar
Use the menu bar to access a set of application-specific
commands. Not all applications have a menu bar.
Icons
Tap the icons to open applications , menus , and a
favorite application , and to find text anywhere in your
data .
See “Opening applications,” “Using menus,” and “Finding
information” in Chapter 4 , and “Buttons Preferences” in
Chapter 16 , for more information about using these icons.
Brightness control
Tap the Brightness icon to open the Adjust Brightness
dialog box. See
“Adjusting brightness” earlier in this chapter
for instructions on adjusting the brightness.
Menu
bar
Icons