Using your computer keyboard, Importing data, Using your computer keyboard importing data – Handspring Treo 300 User Manual

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Section 2

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Entering Data in Your Phone

Note:

The onscreen keyboard also includes a dialog box for international

characters. You can switch among the three dialogs at any time to enter
the exact text you need.

5.

After you finish, tap

Done

to close the onscreen keyboard and place

the text in the record.

Using your computer keyboard

Many of the applications on your phone are available in Palm Desktop
software and in most Personal Information Manager (PIM) applications.
If you have a lot of data to enter, or prefer to use the computer keyboard,
you can use Palm™ Desktop software, or any supported PIM such as
Microsoft Outlook, to enter information. You can then perform a
HotSync

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operation to synchronize the information on your computer

with the information on your phone. See the section that begins on page
76 for details on HotSync operations.

Refer to Palm Desktop online Help or the documentation that came with
your PIM software for more information on entering data on your
computer.

Importing data

If you have data stored in computer applications such as spreadsheets
and databases, or if you want to import data from another Palm OS

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handheld, you can transfer the data to your phone without having to key
it in manually. Save the data in one of the file formats listed below,
import it into Palm Desktop software, and then perform a HotSync
operation to transfer the data to your phone.

Palm Desktop software can import data in the following file formats:

Comma delimited (.csv, .txt): Address and Memo Pad only

Tab delimited (.tab, .tsv, .txt): Address and Memo Pad only

CSV (Lotus Organizer 2.x/97 Mapping): Address only

vCal (.vcs) Date Book only

vCard (.vcf) Address only

Date Book archive (.dba)

Address archive (.aba)

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