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If you haven't
already purchased my Step by Step Guide to Amicus
Attorney, now is the time. This great
training manual will help your users learn more
about the great features in Amicus 5.5, 5.8 or
ASF.
This is also a reminder that we offer
complete Amicus training and consulting services -
we use various remote services to log into your
system and help your users become more productive
in Amicus, or help you manage or administer
Amicus for your firm.
Also, don't forget about our newest service -
a monthly or quarterly Amicus checkup. Click
on the link below to request more information
about this service.
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Dear Lori,
Happy Spring to
all!
For those of you who are
using a Palm Treo 650, you will love all of the
great tips in this newsletter. If you are
using a Treo 700P, most of the tips here will work
for you as well - the biggest difference being
where the buttons are located on your handheld
unit.
For those who have not
yet been hit by the Palm bug, read some of the
tips here, and maybe you too will become a Palm
devotee.
For Amicus 5.5 or Small
Firm users, please read the Featured Article about
our training manual, and find out more about our
training and consulting
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Splash ID |
SplashID is definitely
one of my favorite Palm applications - it allows
you to enter all of your user names, passwords,
credit cards, PINs, and more - directly to your
Palm, or to your desktop. This program gives you
an easy way to organize and protect your critical
information at home, at work, or on the
road. You only have to remember one main
password - the rest of your important information
is stored securely for you to view
anytime.
It is easy to use, and
the cost is only $29.95. You can also get a
free trial by clicking on the link
below.
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Palm Treo
Buttons |
 Caps
/ Numbers & Symbols (Option Lock) /
Menu (Right-Click) - Treo
650
CAPS - While you are in
any text field, press the up-pointing arrow on the
bottom left (or bottom right) of the keypad once
to enter one capital letter - you will see the
same up-pointing arrow on the bottom right corner
of the screen display; press it twice to turn on
the Caps Lock - you will see a smaller underlined
arrow on the display; press it again to turn off
the Caps feature - nothing appears on the
display.
NUMBERS / SYMBOLS -
The Option Lock button is the button to the left
of the letter 'Z' on the keypad (to me it looks
like a small ink blot). While you are in any
text field, press the Option key
once to enter one number or special
character - you will see the same Option icon
on the bottom right corner of the screen display;
press it twice to turn on the Option Lock - you
will see an underlined Option icon on the display;
press it again to turn off the Option Lock -
nothing appears on the display.
MENU (Right-click) - If
you press the Menu button (above
and to the right of the 5-way navigator), you will
see a list of menus with various
items specific to the module you are
currently using. You can use the up, down,
left and right buttons around the 5-way
navigator to move between the menus, or press the
Center button to select a menu
item.
For example, if you are
in a Contact record, and have just highlighted
text in the Work Phone field, pressing the
Menu button will pull down the
Edit menu - you can then select 'Cut' or
'Copy'. Then you can move to another record,
or another field (or just open the Notes field by
selecting Notes at the bottom of
the display - to the right of the 'Details'
button) - press Menu again and
select 'Paste'.
Any time you are in any
typing area and press the Menu
button, you can select 'Edit' - 'Keyboard' to see
all of the available characters. You can
select abc to enter text from the
keyboard; select 123 to enter
numbers or special characters; select
Int'l to enter various
international characters.
NOTE: In some areas, you
may be able to use your finger to select items on
the display - in some areas, it may be difficult,
so you will have to (or want to) use the
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Palm Treo
- Using Favorites |
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One of the greatest
time-saving Palm features is the Favorites
buttons, which allows you to setup one-button
access to Palm applications, and program
Quick Keys to quickly dial your often-used
contacts.
Just below my dial pad, I
have 4 Favorite buttons displayed - Contacts, Call
Log, SplashID, and SMS. And if I scroll
down, I can quickly select the Camera and Voice
Mail. Almost all of the other Favorites have
Speed Dial numbers stored. Keep in mind that
you can change any of the Favorite buttons any
time to suit your needs.
Here's how to add a Speed
Dial to a Favorite button:
1. Press the green
Dial button, and then press the
Down navigator button to
highlight any of the blank favorites (you may have
to press Down and/or
Right a few times to locate a
blank Favorite button). NOTE: If you
wish to change a speed dial associated with a
Favorite button, press Menu and
select Edit Favorites
Button.
2. Once you locate the
blank button, press
the Center button and select
Speed Dial as the
Type.
3. Select
Lookup next to Label, and locate
the contact you wish to add. (You can begin
typing the first name or last name - whichever
works best to locate the name). You will see
a list of phone numbers that can be used for
speed-dialing. (You can assign speed dials
to 'Work', 'Home', or 'Other', as well as 'Main',
'Pager' or 'Mobile' - however, if you are linking
to Amicus, we encourage you to stick to Work,
Home, or Other.)
4. Select the number you
wish to use and select Add - you
will see the contact's name (with a designation of
W, H or O) in the Label field, and the phone
number listed below.
5. Then we want to assign
a Quick Key - this is what makes the Favorite
button so great. Enter any letter a-z
in the Quick Key field. (NOTE: you only have
26 letters, so try to assign letters that you will
easily remember. If you select a letter that
is already assigned, you will see a warning when
you select OK.)
NOTE: One other thing you
can add to specific Favorite buttons is
to assign Ringtones for that
contact. (If you do not select a
different Ringtone, then the default will take
affect.) Specifying a Ringtone means that
when that person calls you - you will hear the
Ringtone that you selected. So for someone
special, you will be able to know without looking
at the phone when that person is
calling.
5. Select
OK to complete the assignment of
the Favorite button.
Now when you are ready to
call one of your Favorites, the easiest way is to
press and hold the assigned letter from the dial
pad. If you don't remember the letter, while
viewing the dial pad, scroll down until you see
the desired Favorite name. Before you dial,
look to the right of the name, and you'll see the
Quick Key assigned to that number - you will
definitely want to use that next time! Press
the Center button to dial the
number.
More coming next
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Sincerely,
Lori
Berenson
Productivity Consulting
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