Franklin BOOKMAN Sidekick SDK-561, BOOKMAN Sidekick SDK-563, BOOKMAN Sidekick SDK-565 User Manual

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK

MAN

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USER ’S GUIDE

SDK-561 • SDK-563 • SDK-565

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License Agreement

READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK.

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LIMITED USE LICENSE All rights in the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK remain the property of FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to use the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK on a single FRANKLIN BOOKMAN at a time. You may not make any copies of the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK or of the preprogrammed data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format. Such copying would be in violation of applicable copyright laws. Further , you may not modify , adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, cr eate derivative works of, or in any way reverse engineer the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK. Y ou may not export or reexport, directly or indirectly, the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK without compliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK contains Franklin’ s confidential and propriety information which you agree to take adequate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective until terminated. This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license.

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Contents

Key Guide .......................... 4

Special BOOKMAN Features 6

Getting Started

Installing Batteries ................... 8

Installing Book Cards............... 8

Selecting a Book...................... 9

Using the Color Keys............... 9

Viewing the Demonstration.... 10

Changing the Settings ........... 10

Selecting a Topic ................... 11

Typing Characters.................. 12

Using a Password.................. 13

Gauging the Memory ............. 14

Using the Clocks

Setting the Home Clock......... 16

Setting the World Clock......... 17

Using the Daily Alarm ............ 17

Changing the

Time/Date Format .................. 18

Swapping the Clocks ............. 19

Using the Calendar

Creating Calendar Entries...... 21

Duplicating a Calendar Entry . 22

Using the Daily View ............. 23

Using the Weekly V iew.......... 24

Using the Monthly View......... 25

Editing Calendar Entries ........ 26

Searching for

Calendar Entries .................... 26

Trimming the Schedule .......... 27

Using Cardfiles

Creating a Cardfile ................ 29

Adding Cards......................... 30

Duplicating a Card................. 31

Viewing Cardfiles and Cards.. 31

Editing Cards......................... 32

Searching for Cards............... 33

Using Notes

Creating a Note Folder .......... 36

Adding Notes......................... 37

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Duplicating a Note................. 38

Viewing Note Folders

and Notes.............................. 38

Editing Notes......................... 39

Searching for Notes............... 40

Using Expenses

Creating Expense Entries....... 43

Viewing Expense Entries........ 44

Editing Expense Entries ......... 44

Computing Expense Sums ..... 45

Using the Calculator

Making Calculations .............. 47

Saving and Retrieving

Calculations .......................... 48

Using the Connectivity Software

The Equipment You Need....... 50

Connecting the Serial Cable .. 50 Installing the

Connectivity Software............ 51

Starting the

Connectivity Software............ 52

Testing Your Connection ........ 53

Linking Files .......................... 54

Merging All Linked Files ........ 57

Advanced T ransfers

and Merging .......................... 60

Recovering Files .................... 62

Backing up and

Restoring Files....................... 63

Solutions to Common

Problems ............................... 64

Doing a Factory Reset ...... 67

Resetting Your BOOKMAN 67

Specifications .................. 68

Copyrights and Patents...... 68

Limited Warranty ............... 6 9

Index ................................ 7 0

Note: This User’s Guide is intended for use with BOOKMAN Sidekick models SDK-561, SDK-563, and SDK-565. For information about your specific BOOKMAN Sidekick, read “Specifications.”

Contents

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Key Guide

Color Keys

FILES

(red) Cycles through the

cardfiles.

CALEND

(green) Cycles through the

calendar views.

NOTES

(yellow) Cycles through the

note folders.

EDIT

(blue) Displays entry, search,

edit, delete and other options.

Direction Keys

Moves through text or menus, or moves the cursor. In the Calculator, types basic math symbols (i.e., +, x, -, ÷).

Pages down or up.

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow, and blue) perform the functions listed above only for the book described in this User’s Guide.

Other BOOKMAN books have their own color key functions, which are labeled on their keyboards or book cards. To learn more, read “Using the Color Keys.”

Other Keys

BACK

Erases a letter, or backs up.

CAP

Shifts a key to type capital letters or punctuation marks.

CARD

Exits the book you are reading.

CLEAR

Clears to the main screen of the current topic.

ENTER

Selects a menu item, or enters search words. In the Calculator, performs a selected math function.

HELP

Displays help messages.

Displays the main menus.

ON/OFF

Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.

✽

Types a question mark. At menus, displays the full title of a menu item. With

CAP

, types

an asterisk.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

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Key Guide

Key Combinations*

✩

BACK

Exits a new or edited entry without saving.

✩

Toggles between the Home and World clock.

✩

EDIT

Opens an entry to edit.

✩

ENTER

Saves an entry. In the Calendar Daily view, checks or unchecks To Do items and Calls.

✩

In the Calculator, converts a number to a percentage.

✩

In the Calculator, squares a number.

✩

In the Calculator, calculates the square root of a number.

✩

In the Calculator, calculates a reciprocal.

✩

Selects the Calculator (math).

✩

+ N Locks and unlocks the

numbered keys.

✩

Q-P

Types numbers.

✩

Displays the special characters you can type.

✩

Selects Expenses.

✩

+ At a field or entry

screen, types a hyphen.

✩

+ At a field or entry

screen, accents a typed letter.

✩

Goes to the next or previous entry or match.

CAP

+ Goes to the bottom or

top of a list, menu, or entry.

* Hold the first key while pressing the other

key.

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Special BOOKMAN Features

Your BOOKMAN model is equipped with several special features that many, but not all, BOOKMAN books use. To learn if you can use the special features with a particular BOOKMAN book, read its User’s Guide.

Headphone Jack: The headphone jack is designed for 3.5 mm, 35 ohm impedance stereo headphones. Caution: Monophonic headphones will not work with this BOOKMAN model.

Volume Control: The dial located

near the headphone jack controls the volume of the headphones.

Serial Port: The serial port allows cer tain BOOKMAN books, when Franklin’s BOOKMAN PC-Connect serial cable is connected to your BOOKMAN, to transfer information to a personal computer (PC). Warning: Using a serial cable other than the one obtained from Franklin may damage your BOOKMAN or PC. Franklin’s serial cable is specifically designed to transfer information between BOOKMAN and a PC.

Serial Port

Headphone Jack

Serial Cable

Volume Control

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Getting Started

If you are using your BOOKMAN Sidekick

for the first time, read this section.

It explains how to start using your

BOOKMAN Sidekick, as well as how

to perform basic and important operations.

Installing Batteries ......................................................... 8

Installing Book Cards ..................................................... 8

Selecting a Book ............................................................ 9

Using the Color Keys...................................................... 9

Viewing the Demonstration .......................................... 10

Changing the Settings .................................................. 10

Selecting a Topic .......................................................... 11

Typing Characters ........................................................ 12

Using a Password......................................................... 13

Gauging the Memory .................................................... 14

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Warning: Never install or remove a book card when your BOOKMAN is turned on. If you do, information that you entered in any installed book cards may be erased. However, information saved in your BOOKMAN Sidekick will not be erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the book card tabs with the notches in a card slot.

4. Press the book car d until it

snaps into place.

Installing Book CardsInstalling Batteries

Your BOOKMAN model is powered by two AAA, 1.5-volt batteries. Here is how to install or replace them.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

2. Remove the battery cover on the back of your BOOKMAN by compressing its tab with your finger and then lifting the cover.

3. Install the batteries as shown on the diagram in the battery compartment.

4. Replace the battery cover.

➤ When the Batteries Are Low

An on-screen warning message will appear when the batteries in your BOOKMAN Sidekick are low on power. This message does not mean that any of the information entered in your BOOKMAN Sidekick is in danger of being lost or erased. However, you may not be able to create new entries until fresh batteries are installed.

➤ Removing Book Cards

Warning: When you remove most book cards, information that you entered is not saved in the book cards. If you change the batteries or reset your BOOKMAN, that information will be erased.

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Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on your BOOKMAN change their functions according to which book you are using.

When you are using the built-in book, the color keys function as labelled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. When you are using a book card, the color keys function as labelled on that book card.

➤ About the Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this User’s Guide may differ slightly from what you see on screen. This does not mean that your BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.

Once you have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you can select which book to use.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.

2. Press CARD.

These are sample books.

3. Press

or to highlight

the book you want to use.

4. Press ENTER to select it.

Remember, the color keys for book cards function as labelled on their cards, not as labelled on the BOOKMAN keyboard.

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Viewing the Demonstration

Before you start using your BOOKMAN Sidekick, you may want to see a brief demonstration of what it can do.

When a book card is not installed in your BOOKMAN, the demonstration automatically appears after you turn on your BOOKMAN. T o stop the demonstration, press CLEAR. T o disable it, press MENU and then select

Disable Demo

from the

Setup menu. T o re-enable it, select

Enable Demo.

When a book card is installed in your BOOKMAN, select

View Demo

from the

Setup menu to see the demonstration.

Changing the Settings

You can adjust the screen contrast, automatic shutoff time, the help message language, and the time/date for mat of the clocks and calendars of your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

The automatic shutoff time is how long your BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to turn it off. The help message language is the language of the help messages, tutorial, and demonstration.

1. Press MENU until the main menus appear.

2. Use the arrow keys to highlight Time/Date Format, Set

Language, Set Shutoff, Set Contrast on the Setup menu.

3. Press ENTER.

4. Use or to change the setting.

Or press BACK to leave it unchanged.

5. Press ENTER to select it.

➤ Help is Always at Hand

At virtually any screen, you can view a help message by pressing HELP. Use

or DN to read it. To exit

help, press BACK. T o read a tutorial about this book, se-

lect

Tutorial

from the Setup menu.

You change the language of the help messages, tutorial, and demonstration. To learn how, read “Changing the Settings.”

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Your BOOKMAN Sidekick has seven main functions, or topics: Cardfiles, (Home) Clock, World Clock, Expenses, Calculator, Calendar, and Notes. Here is how to change the selected topic.

1. Press MENU until the main menus appear.

2. Use the arrow keys to highlight the Topics menu.

3. Highlight a topic.

4. Press ENTER to select it.

Selecting a Topic

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If Y ou Forget to Save Your Changes

If you try to select a topic while creating a new entry or editing an existing entry, or if you press CLEAR while creating an entry, a message appears asking if you want to save your changes.

To save your changes, press S. To exit the entry without saving, press X. To go back to the entry, press any other key except CLEAR, ON/OFF, CAP, or

✩

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Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows at the right of the screen show which arrow keys you can use to view more text, and highlight menus and menu items.

Note: At some menus, you can also highlight menu items by typing the first few letters of their titles.

Selecting a Topic

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A Quick Way to Select Topics

You can also select topics using these keys:

To go to... Press...

Cardfiles FILES (red) Home or

✩

+ C

World Clock Expenses

✩

+ X

Calculator

✩

+ M Calendar CALEND (green) Notes NOTES (yellow)

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Typing Characters

Many of the topics in your BOOKMAN Sidekick let you type and save entries that consist of fields, or items of information. For example, below are fields in a single-day appointment.

To Type Letters and Accents

At fields that normally require letters, such as names and descriptions, the cursor appears as a flashing triangle. At such fields, simply press the letter keys to type letters.

The first letter in letter fields automatically types as a capital. To type a lowercase letter as the first letter in a letter field, hold CAP and press a letter key. To type subsequent capitals, hold CAP and press the letter keys.

To accent a letter, type it and then hold

✩

and press until the desired

accent appears.

Typing Characters

To Type Numbers

At fields that require numbers, such as dates and times, simply press the numbered keys.

At other fields that often use numbers, such as ZIP codes, the number lock is turned on by default. At such fields, you can type letters from the top row (Q, W , E, R, T, Y, etc.) by holding

✩

and pressing the appropriate key . T o unlock or relock the numbered keys, hold

✩

and press N.

Fields that require or normally use numbers are indicated by a flashing box cursor.

To Type Special Characters

At many fields, you can type a variety of special characters, such as monetary symbols and punctuation marks, by first holding

✩

and pressing S.

Then type the letter to the left of the symbol. Or use the arrow keys to highlight a symbol and then press ENTER.

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Using a Password

T o limit access to your BOOKMAN Sidekick, you can assign a password that will be required whenever you or anyone else turns on your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

Caution: If you lose or forget your password, you will need to send your BOOKMAN Sidekick to Franklin Electronic Publishers to regain access.

To Set Your Password

1. Press MENU until the main menus appear.

2. On the Setup menu, highlight Set Password and then press ENTER.

3. Type all the requested information, including a password.

4. Record your password in a separate location, not on your BOOKMAN.

5. Hold

✩

and press ENTER.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without setting the password.

6. Press C to set the password.

7. T urn off your BOOKMAN.

Using a Password

8. T urn on your BOOKMAN.

9. Type your password and then press ENTER.

The password you type must exactly match the password you set.

To Change or Delete Your Password

1. On the Setup menu, highlight Set Password and then press ENTER.

2. To change the password, scroll down to it and retype it.

3. To delete the password, move the cursor to the end of the password, and then use BACK to erase it.

4. Hold

✩

and press ENTER to

save your changes.

If you delete the password, it will not be requested when your BOOKMAN Sidekick is turned on.

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Gauging the Memory

The amount of memory in your BOOKMAN Sidekick varies according to the model. As you enter and transfer information into your BOOKMAN Sidekick, you will occasionally need to check how much memory is available for more entries.

1. Press MENU.

2. On the Setup menu, highlight

Memory Gauge.

3. Press ENTER.

4. Press MENU to return to the main menus.

➤ If You Lose or Forget Y our Password

If you misplace your password, you can regain access to your BOOKMAN Sidekick by contacting Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.

In the U.S., first call 1-800-BOOKMAN to obtain a return authorization code. Then mail your BOOKMAN Sidekick, with your return authorization code, to Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., One Franklin Plaza, Burlington, NJ

08016. In the U.K., send your carefully

packaged BOOKMAN Sidekick to Franklin Electronic Publishers Ltd., Unit 5, West Surrey Estate, Spelthorne Lane, Ashford, Middlesex, TW18 1UH. Remember to enclose a note explaining your need to regain access through having lost or forgotten your password and make sure your full name and address is included.

Using a Password

➤ Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off your BOOKMAN Sidekick at any screen. When you turn your BOOKMAN Sidekick on again, the screen that you most recently viewed appears.

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Your BOOKMAN Sidekick has two clocks

that keep time simultaneously:

a Home Clock and a World Clock.

You can set either clock

to any time zone around the world

and then swap the clocks as you travel.

You can also set a daily alarm

that works even when

your BOOKMAN Sidekick is turned off.

Using the Clocks

Setting the Home Clock................................................ 16

Setting the World Clock ............................................... 17

Using the Daily Alarm .................................................. 17

Changing the Time/Date Format .................................. 18

Swapping the Clocks ................................................... 19

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The first time that you use your BOOKMAN Sidekick, you should set the Home Clock to the date and time in your time zone.

1. Hold

✩

and press C until the

Home Clock appears.

HOME

or a home icon indicates the

Home Clock.

2. Press EDIT (blue).

3. Press ENTER to select Set Date and Time.

Or hold

✩

and press EDIT when

the Home Clock is on screen.

4. Use

or to highlight a part

of the date or time.

5. Use or to change it.

6. Use the arrow keys to highlight and change other parts

Setting the Home Clock

of the date and time.

7. Press ENTER when finished.

Or press BACK to exit without changing the date or time.

Setting the Home Clock

➤

Setting the Home Clock

by Location or Time Zone

You can also set the Home Clock to the time and date of any of dozens of locations around the world or to any of 24 world time zones.

When the Home Clock is on screen, press EDIT (blue) and then select

Set Home Time Zone

from

the Clock Edit menu.

Next, select

Location Name

Time

Zone

. If you select

Location Name

, start typing a city, country or other location name until it is highlighted and then press ENTER to set the Home Clock to its time. If you select

Time Zone

, highlight a time

zone and press ENTER.

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The Home Clock has an alarm that you can set for waking up and other oncea-day uses. This single, daily alarm makes a series of quick beeps that stops after about 10 seconds.

The daily alarm works even when your BOOKMAN Sidekick is turned off. When the daily alarm sounds, your BOOKMAN Sidekick is automatically turned on and the daily alarm time is displayed.

To Set or Change the Daily Alarm

1. Hold ✩ and press C until the Home Clock appears.

2. Press EDIT (blue).

3. Highlight Set Alarm Time and then press ENTER to select it.

4. Select Set Alarm Time again.

5. Type an hour, minutes, and an a or p (for a.m. or p.m.).

Using the Daily AlarmSetting the World Clock

After you have set the Home Clock, you can set the World Clock by selecting a time zone or one of dozens locations around the world.

1. Hold

✩

and press C until the

World Clock appears.

WORLD

or a world icon indicates

the World Clock.

2. Press EDIT (blue).

3. Highlight Set World Time Zone and then press ENTER to select it.

4. Select Location Name or Time Zone.

5. Start typing a location name until it is highlighted or highlight a time zone.

6. Press ENTER to set the World Clock to that time.

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Changing the

Time/Date Format

You may want to change the format of the time and date on the clocks and in the Calendar. The formats you can use are 12- or 24-hour and month/day/year (U.S.) or day/month/year (European).

1. Press MENU to see the main menus.

2. On the Setup menu, highlight

Time/Date Format.

3. Press ENTER.

A check marks the current format.

4. Highlight another format and then press ENTER.

Or press BACK to exit without changing the format.

Using the Daily Alarm

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Selecting Daylight Savings

or Standard Time

By default, standard or daylight savings time is automatically set for U.S. time zones. To manually set either option for the Home or World Clock, first press EDIT (blue) when a clock is on screen. Then select

Day-

light Savings

World Daylight Sav-

ings

and either

Standard (Winter)

Time

Daylight (Summer) Time.

6. Press ENTER when finished.

A bell icon on the Home Clock indicates the daily alarm is enabled and set.

7. When the daily alarm sounds, press any key except

✩

or CAP to turn it off and clear the daily alarm time display.

To Disable the Daily Alarm

1. Hold ✩ and press C until the Home Clock appears.

2. Press EDIT (blue).

3. Highlight Set Alarm Time and then press ENTER.

4. Highlight Disable Alarm and then press ENTER.

The bell icon disappears from the Home Clock.

5. To re-enable the daily alarm without changing its time, select Enable Alarm from the Alarm Control menu.

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Swapping the Clocks

Once you have set both the Home and World Clocks, you can swap their times and dates. Swapping the clocks is a useful feature if you frequently travel between time zones.

1. Hold

✩

and press C until the

Home Clock appears.

2. Press EDIT (blue).

3. On the Clock Edit menu, highlight Swap Home &

World Time.

4. Press ENTER.

Swapping the Clocks

➤

Understanding Clock Swapping

When you swap your Home and World Clocks, your daily alarm setting, appointment times and their alarms, and any other time-sensitive calendar entries do not change.

For example, if your daily alarm was originally set for 6:30 a.m. New York time, after swapping the clocks

it will sound at 6:30 a.m. in your new Home Clock time zone. And if you had an appointment scheduled at 9:00 a.m. New York time, after swapping it will be scheduled at 9:00 a.m. in the new time zone.

➤

Resetting the Clock

When you remove the batteries from your BOOKMAN Sidekick, or if they lose all power, you may need to reset the Home and World Clocks.

After replacing the batteries, a message may appear asking you to check the Home Clock time. If its time is correct, simply press ENTER.

If the time is incorrect, use the arrow keys to change it. To learn how, read “Setting the Home Clock.” To learn how to reset the World Clock, read “Setting the World Clock.”

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Using the Calendar

The Calendar is a powerful tool

to help you organize your activities.

You can use the Calendar to schedule

appointments, multiple-day events,

to do lists, phone calls, and

special days such as birthdays and anniversaries.

You can see your Calendar

in Daily, Weekly, and Monthly views.

And you can even search your Calendar

for entries containing any word(s).

Creating Calendar Entries ............................................ 21

Duplicating a Calendar Entry ....................................... 22

Using the Daily View .................................................... 23

Using the Weekly View ................................................. 24

Using the Monthly View ............................................... 25

Editing Calendar Entries............................................... 26

Searching for Calendar Entries .................................... 26

Trimming the Schedule................................................. 27

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Your calendar entries can be appointments (single-day and recurring), To Do items, calls, multi-day events, or special days. You can create new calendar entries from the Daily, Weekly, or Monthly calendar view.

1. Press CALEND (green).

2. Press EDIT (blue).

3. Press ENTER to select New Calendar Entry.

4. Highlight an entry type and then press ENTER to select it. For example, select Appointment.

5. If you selected an appointment, select an appointment type (for example, Single Day Appointment).

6. Type information.

To erase, use BACK. To learn more, read “Typing Characters.”

7. Press ENTER to go to the next field. Or use the arrow keys

Creating Calendar Entries

to move the cursor.

8. Hold

✩

and press ENTER to

save your entry.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

➤ Understanding Calendar Entries

Appointments can be for a single day, can recur once a week, or can recur once a month. You can create up to three appointments overlapping any single, 15-minute time span. But you cannot create a single-day appointment that spans two days (for example 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.). Instead, create a multi-day event.

Every appointment must have a starting time, an ending time, and an event or title description.

Y ou can also set appointment alarms to sound either at an appointment’s starting time or with a lead time of up to 23 hours and 59 minutes. Appointment alarms work even when your BOOKMAN Sidekick is turned off. When an appointment alarm sounds,

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Creating Calendar Entries

A quick way to create a new calendar entry is to duplicate an existing entry. When you duplicate an entry, a new entry is opened with the same information as an existing entry. To save the new entry, you must change at least one field of information.

1. Press CALEND (green) until the Daily view appears.

This is a sample Daily view .

2. Highlight the calendar entry that you want to duplicate.

3. Press EDIT (blue).

4. Highlight Duplicate Calendar Entry and then press ENTER.

5. Edit at least one field. Use the arrow keys to move around.

6. Hold

✩

and press ENTER to save

your entry . Or hold

✩

and press

BACK to exit without saving.

Duplicating a Calendar Entry

press any key except ✩ or CAP to turn it off and clear the display .

To Do items must have a title and can have a due date. T o Do items appear on the Calendar Daily view on the day they are entered. They carry over to subsequent days until you check them off as completed. On their due dates, T o Do items appear bolded on the Daily view . To learn how to check off completed T o Do items, read “Using the Daily View .”

Calls must have a title. They carry over to subsequent days until you check them off as completed. T o lear n how to check off completed calls, read “Using the Daily View .”

Multi-day Events must have event descriptions and number of days.

Special Days can be annually recurring, such as birthdays, or a singleday occurrence. If you type

, for no, in the Annual field, that special day entry will not recur .

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Using the Daily View

3. Perform one of these functions: To... Press...

view a full title

✻

check/uncheck ✩ + ENTER a completed To Do item or call

view an entry ENTER edit an entry

✩

+ EDIT (blue)

Note: When you check off a completed To Do item or call, its title is italicized and checkmarked on the Daily view.

4. If you pressed ENTER to view an entry, you can scroll down, press BACK to exit, or hold

✩

and press EDIT to edit

the entry.

5. If you pressed

✩

+ EDIT (blue), you can type your changes and then hold

✩

and press ENTER to save them.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving your changes.

6. Press CLEAR to return to the Daily view for the current day .

Once you have created calendar entries, you can view or edit them directly from the Daily view of the Calendar.

From top to bottom, the Daily view lists special days, multi-day events, appointments (by time), T o Do items, and calls. You probably will want to use the Daily view as your basic scheduling tool.

1. Press CALEND (green) until the Daily view appears.

This is a sample Daily view.

2. Highlight an entry . To... Press...

scroll down or up

or page down or up DN or UP go to the bottom CAP +

or top entry

go to the next or

✩

+ DN or UP

previous day go to the top of CLEAR

the current Daily view

Using the Daily View

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The Weekly view of the Calendar displays your appointments as bar charts showing their time ranges.

1. Press CALEND (gr een) until a Weekly view appears. Or press CALEND (green), MENU, and then select Weekly.

This is a sample Weekly view. The bars indicate the time ranges of your appointments, with up to three overlapping.

2. Use the Direction keys. To... Press...

see earlier or later

times scroll down or up

or page down or up DN or UP go to the end CAP +

or start of a week go to the next or

✩

+ DN or UP

previous week

Using the Weekly V iew

Using the Daily View

➤ Understanding Daily View Icons

On the Daily view, calendar entries are identified by these icons:

This Icon Means

special day multi-day event appointment alarm To Do item call completed To Do

item or call

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The Monthly view lets you quickly scan the Calendar for dates and calendar entries.

1. Press CALEND (green) until the Monthly view appears. Or press CALEND (gr een), MENU, and then select Monthly.

This is a sample Monthly view . The dots indicate dates with appointments.

2. Use the Direction keys. To... Press...

highlight a date

, , ,

go to the next or DN or UP previous month

go to the next or

✩

+ DN or UP

previous year

3. To create a new calendar entry, or search for calendar entries, press EDIT (blue).

4. To go to the Daily view for a date, highlight it and then press ENTER.

Using the Monthly View

To... Press...

go to the current CLEAR day on the Weekly view

3. To create a new entry or search for existing calendar entries, press EDIT (blue).

4. To go to the Daily view for a given day , highlight it and then press ENTER. Or to go to the Monthly view, press CALEND (green).

Using the Weekly View

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You can search the Calendar for current or future appointments, multi-day events, To Do items, calls and special days. Note: You can not search for calendar entries that are scheduled before the current date on your Home Clock.

1. At any Calendar view, press EDIT (blue).

2. Highlight Search and then press ENTER.

Type one or more words that occur in the titles, descriptions, or notes of calendar entries.

These are sample search words. In your search words you can type

numbers (but not to find times), special characters, and accents to find exact matches. You do not need to type capital letters.

4. Press ENTER to search.

Editing Calendar Entries

Once you have created calendar entries, it’s easy to change or edit them.

1. Press CALEND (green) until the Daily view appears.

2. Highlight the calendar entry that you want to edit.

3. Hold

✩

and press EDIT (blue). Or press EDIT (blue) and then select Edit.

4. Type your changes.

Hold ✩ and press ENTER to save your entry . Or hold

✩

and press

BACK to exit without saving.

Searching for

Calendar Entries

➤ Deleting and Undeleting Entries

T o delete a calendar entry, first highlight the entry you want to delete on the Daily view . Then press EDIT (blue) and select

Delete

. Then press D to delete the entry . If you delete a recurring appointment or recurring special day , all past and future occurrences of that calendar entry will be deleted, too. T o undelete the most recently deleted entry , select

Undelete

from the Daily

Calendar Edit menu.

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Trimming the Schedule

The Daily view of the first date that has a match for your word(s) appears.

Note: Multiple-word searches find only entries containing all your search words.

5. Hold

✩

and press DN or UP to go to the next or previous day , if any, with matches.

6. When finished, press CLEAR to clear your search.

In order not to fill up the memory of your BOOKMAN Sidekick, it is wise to periodically trim your schedule. Trimming the schedule deletes only those calendar entries that were completed prior to a date you specify.

Note: Special days are trimmed only if they are nonannual. Multi-day events and recurring appointments are fully trimmed only if all their dates fall before the date you specify. If they span that date, only their earlier dates are trimmed.

1. Press MENU.

2. From the Setup menu, select Trim Schedule.

3. Type the date before which you want to delete the completed calendar entries.

4. Press ENTER.

5. Press D to trim the schedule.

Or press any other key to exit without trimming.

➤ Searching for Parts of Words

In the Calendar, you can search for the first few letters in a word to find inflections, suffixes, and other similar words.

For example, searching for

par

will find

entries with

park, party, apartment

, etc.

Searching for

Calendar Entries

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Using Cardfiles

Think of your cardfiles as a personalized filing system.

You can create cardfiles to organize

your business and personal addresses, wine

and music collections, favorite restaurants

or hotels, and almost anything else.

Each card in a cardfile is like an index card,

holding information such as phone numbers,

e-mail addresses, company names,

birthdays, and more.

And you can search a cardfile to quickly find

the cards and information that you need.

Creating a Cardfile ....................................................... 29

Adding Cards ............................................................... 30

Duplicating a Card ....................................................... 31

Viewing Cardfiles and Cards........................................ 31

Editing Cards................................................................ 32

Searching for Cards ..................................................... 33

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Creating a Car dfile

A cardfile is a collection, or database, of cards. Y ou can create six types of cardfiles by choosing one of the following templates, or cardfile types:

Business

Address Book

;

Personal Address

Book; Email Address Book; Wine List

;

Hotels, Restaurants

; and

Music/CD

Collection

Note: You can create more than one cardfile from a particular template.

Press FILES (red). Or select Cardfiles from the Topics menu.

2. Press MENU to go to the Cardfiles menu.

3. Press EDIT (blue).

4. Press ENTER to select New Cardfile.

5. Use the arrow keys to highlight a cardfile template.

Creating a Cardfile

6. Press ENTER.

7. T ype the name of your new cardfile.

This is a sample cardfile name. To erase a typed character, use BACK.

8. Press ENTER to cr eate it.

➤

Deleting a Cardfile

Warning: When you delete a cardfile, all the cards contained in it are permanently deleted.

At the Cardfiles menu, highlight the cardfile you want to delete. Then press EDIT (blue), highlight

Delete

Cardfile

, and press ENTER. Finally, press D to delete the cardfile and Y to confirm. Press any other key to cancel.

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➤

Renaming a Cardfile

You can easily change the name of a cardfile.

At the Cardfiles menu, highlight the cardfile that you want to rename. Press EDIT (blue), highlight

Rename

Cardfile

, and then press ENTER. Use BACK to erase the typed letters and then type your new cardfile name. Press ENTER to rename the cardfile, or press CLEAR to exit without renaming it.

➤

Creating Your Own Templates

You can create your own cardfile templates on your PC Sidekick and then transfer them to your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

To learn how to create custom templates, read your PC Sidekick User’s Guide. Then read “Using the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity Software” in this User’s Guide to learn how to transfer or merge them to your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

Creating a Cardfile

Adding Cards

Once you have created a cardfile, you can create cards and add them to it. Cards consist of fields in which you enter information.

1. If needed, use FILES (red) to cycle to the cardfile into which you want to add a card.

2. Press EDIT (blue).

This is a sample Cardfile Edit menu.

3. Press ENTER to select New Card Entry.

4. Enter your card information.

Press ENTER to go to the next field. T o move the cursor , use the arrow keys.

5. To add the card, hold

✩

and press ENTER, or press ENTER at the last field.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

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Viewing Car dfiles and Cards

There are several ways to view and access your cardfiles and cards.

1. Press FILES (red) repeatedly to cycle through your cardfiles.

To display the full title of a card, press

✽

2. To see a list of your cardfiles, press MENU to see the Cardfiles menu.

To display the full title of a cardfile, press

✽

3. Highlight a cardfile and then press ENTER to see its car ds.

You can highlight a cardfile by scrolling to it or by typing its title at the menu.

Duplicating a Card

A quick way to create a new card is to duplicate an existing card. When you duplicate a card, a new card is opened with the same information as the card you selected. To save the new card, you must change at least one field in it.

For example, you can use

Duplicate

to quickly create cards in which fields such as company, business address, etc. are the same, but other fields such as name, home phone, pager, etc. are different.

1. Press FILES (red).

2. Highlight the card you want

to duplicate.

3. Press EDIT (blue).

4. Highlight Duplicate and then

press ENTER.

5. Edit at least one field of

information.

6. Hold

✩

and press ENTER to

save your new card.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

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Editing Cards

After you have created a card, you can edit or change it.

1. Press FILES (red).

2. To highlight a card, scroll to it or type the first few letters of its title.

3. Hold

✩

and press EDIT (blue).

Or press EDIT (blue) and then select

Edit This Card

4. Enter your card information.

Use BACK to erase typed characters.

5. Hold

✩

and press ENTER to

save your changes.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

4. Highlight a card and then press ENTER to view it.

5. To go to the bottom or top of a card, hold CAP and pr ess and .

Note: When you view a card, only the fields in which you typed infor mation are displayed.

6. To go to the next or previous card in the cardfile, if any, hold

✩

and press DN or UP.

7. To edit a card that you are viewing, hold

✩

and press

EDIT (blue).

Viewing Cardfiles and Car ds

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➤

Deleting and Undeleting a Car d

You can delete existing cards. You can also restore a deleted card by undeleting it.

To delete a card, first use FILES (red) to find the desired cardfile and then highlight the card you want to delete. If you want to view the card before you delete it, press ENTER. Then press EDIT (blue) and highlight

Delete This Card

. Press ENTER. Then press D to delete the card. Press any other key to cancel.

To undelete the card most recently deleted card from a selected cardfile, first press EDIT (blue) and then highlight

Undelete Card

. Press

ENTER to undelete that card.

Editing Cards

Searching for Car ds

Y ou can search a cardfile by entering one or more words that occur in the fields of its cards. Note: Y ou can search only one cardfile at a time.

1. If needed, use FILES (red) to find the cardfile you want to search.

2. Press EDIT (blue) and highlight Search This Cardfile.

3. Press ENTER.

4. Type one or more wor ds.

In your search words you can type numbers, special characters, and accents to find exact matches. You do not need to type capital letters, b

ut if you want to, hold CAP and type a letter.

5. Press ENTER to search.

Matching cards are displayed.

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Searching for Car ds

6. Highlight a match and press ENTER.

7. Hold

✩

and press DN or UP to go to the next or previous match.

8. To go back to the list of matching cards, press BACK.

9. Press CLEAR to clear your search.

➤

Searching for Parts of Words

Y ou can search for words in cards by typing the endings, beginnings, and other parts of the word. For example, searching for

par

will find entries with

park, party, apartment

, etc.

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Using Notes

You can use notes and note folders

to create, edit and organize textual information

about anything from travel directions

to grocery lists to business ideas.

You can even search through a note folder

to quickly find the notes that you need.

Creating a Note Folder ................................................. 36

Adding Notes ............................................................... 37

Duplicating a Note........................................................ 38

Viewing Note Folders and Notes .................................. 38

Editing Notes ................................................................ 39

Searching for Notes ..................................................... 40

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Creating a Note Folder

Before you can create notes, you must first create note folders in which to hold them.

Note: BOOKMAN Sidekick can hold only one notefile, containing note folders and notes, at a time.

1. Press NOTES (yellow). Or select Notes from the Topics menu.

2. Press MENU to go to the Notes menu.

3. Press EDIT (blue).

4. Press ENTER to select New Folder.

5. Name the folder.

Use BACK to erase a typed character.

6. Press ENTER to create it.

➤

Deleting a Note Folder

Warning: When you delete a note folder, all the notes contained in it are permanently deleted.

At the Notes menu, highlight the note folder that you want to delete. Then press EDIT (blue), highlight

Delete Folder

, and press ENTER. Finally, press D to delete the note folder and Y to confirm. Press any other key to cancel.

➤

Renaming a Note Folder

You can easily change the name of an existing note folder.

At the Notes menu, highlight the note folder that you want to rename. Press EDIT (blue), highlight

Rename Folder

, and then press ENTER. Use BACK to erase the typed characters and then type your new folder name. Press ENTER to rename the note folder, or press CLEAR to exit without renaming it.

Creating a Note Folder

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Adding Notes

Once you have created a note folder, you can create notes and add them to a folder. Each note consists of a Subject field and a note field. In their note folders, notes are listed alphabetically by their subjects.

1. If needed, use NOTES (yellow) to find the note folder into which you want to add a note.

2. Press EDIT (blue).

This is a sample Note Folder Edit menu.

3. Press ENTER to select New Note Entry.

4. Enter your note information.

Press ENTER to go to the next field. To move the cursor, use the arrow keys.

T o quickly go to the top or bottom of a

Adding Notes

note, hold CAP and press or .

5. Hold

✩

and press ENTER to

add a note.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

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A quick way to create a new note is to duplicate an existing note. When you duplicate a note, a new note is opened with the same information as the note you selected. To save the new note, you must change at least one field in it.

1. Press NOTES (yellow).

2. Highlight the note you want to duplicate.

3. Press EDIT (blue).

4. Highlight Duplicate and then press ENTER.

5. Edit at least one field of information.

6. Hold

✩

and press ENTER to

save your new note.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

Duplicating a Note

There are several ways to view and access your notes and note folders.

1. Press NOTES (yellow) repeatedly to cycle through your note folders.

To display the full title of a note, press

✽

2. To see a list of your note folders, press MENU to go to the Notes menu.

To display the full title of a note folder, press

✽

3. Highlight a note folder and then press ENTER to see its notes.

You can highlight a note folder by scrolling to it or by typing its title at the menu.

Viewing Note Folders

and Notes

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4. Highlight a note and then press ENTER to view it.

5. To go to the bottom or top of a note, hold CAP and press and .

Note: When you view a note, only the fields in which you typed infor mation are displayed.

6. To go to the next or previous note in a note folder, if any, hold

✩

and press EDIT (blue).

7. To edit a note that you are viewing, hold

✩

and press

EDIT (blue).

Viewing Note Folders

and Notes

Editing Notes

After you have created a note, you can edit, or change, it.

1. Press NOTES (yellow).

2. To highlight a note, scroll to it or type the first few letters of its title.

3. Hold

✩

and press EDIT (blue).

Or press EDIT (blue) and then select

Edit This Note

4. Enter your note information.

Use BACK to erase typed characters.

5. Hold

✩

and press ENTER to

save your changes.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

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➤

Deleting and Undeleting a Note

You can delete existing notes. You can also restore a deleted note by undeleting it.

To delete a note, first use NOTES (yellow) to find the desired note folder and then highlight the note you want to delete. If you want to view the note before you delete it, press ENTER. Then press EDIT (blue) and highlight

Delete This

Note

. Press ENTER and then press D to delete the note. Press any other key to cancel.

To undelete the most recently deleted note from a selected note folder, first press EDIT (blue) and then highlight

Undelete Note.

Press

ENTER to undelete that note.

Editing a Note

Searching for Notes

You can search a note folder by entering one or more words that occur in the fields of its notes. Note: Y ou can search only one note folder at a time.

1. If needed, use NOTES (yellow) to find the note folder you want to search.

2. Press EDIT (blue) and highlight Search This Notefile.

3. Press ENTER.

4. Type one or more words.

In your search words you can type numbers, special characters, and accents to find exact matches. You do not need to type capital letters, b

ut if you want to, hold CAP and type a letter .

5. Press ENTER to search.

Matching notes appear.

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6. Highlight a match and press ENTER.

7. Hold

✩

and press DN or UP to go to the next or previous match.

8. To go back to the list of matches, press BACK.

9. Press CLEAR to clear your search.

Searching for Notes

➤

Searching for Parts of Words

You can search for words in notes by typing the endings, beginnings, and other parts of a word. For example, searching for

par

will find en-

tries with

park, party, apartment

etc.

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Using Expenses

The Expenses topic tracks

your business and personal expenses.

You can save expense information

such as account and payment type, restaurant, airline,

vendor, currency , r emarks, and more.

Then you can quickly calculate your total expenses

according to their account and payment type.

Creating Expense Entries ............................................. 43

Viewing Expense Entries .............................................. 44

Editing Expense Entries ................................................ 44

Computing Expense Sums ............................................ 45

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You must enter an account and an amount in every expense entry. You can enter other information such as the date and payment type (e.g., cash, check, etc.). Expense entries are listed alphabetically by their Accounts.

1. Hold

✩

and press X. Or select Expenses from the Topics menu.

The Expenses menu is empty the first time you use it.

2. Press EDIT (blue).

3. Press ENTER to select New Expense Entry.

The current date appears in the Date field. To type another date, simply type over it.

4. T ype your expense information.

Note: You do not need to type a dollar sign or other currency symbol

in the Amount field. To erase characters, use BACK.

5. Press ENTER to go to the next line. Or use the arrow keys to move the cursor.

6. To save the entry, hold

✩

and press ENTER, or press ENTER at the last field.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

Creating Expense Entries

➤

Merging and Transferring

Expense Entries to Your PC

Only if you are using Sidekick 95 or later can you merge or transfer expense entries from your BOOKMAN Sidekick to your computer using the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software. The expenses topic is an addition to Sidekick 95 and is not included in earlier versions of PC Sidekick.

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Editing Expense Entries

Once you have created expense entries, you can edit them. Your changes will be reflected when you compute your expenses sums.

1. Hold

✩

and press X. Or select Expenses from the Topics menu.

2. To highlight an expense entry , scroll to it or type the first few letters of its title.

3. Hold

✩

and press EDIT (blue).

Or press ENTER to view an expense entry and then hold

✩

and

press EDIT (blue). Or press EDIT (blue) and then se-

lect

Edit This Expense

4. Enter your expense information.

5. To save the entry , hold

✩

and press ENTER, or press ENTER at the last field.

Or hold

✩

and press BACK to exit

without saving.

Viewing Expense Entries

Y ou can easily view an expense entry to see the information entered in its fields.

1. Hold

✩

and press X to go to

the Expenses menu.

Highlight an expense entry and then press ENTER to view it.

To highlight an expense entry, use the arrow keys to scroll to it or start typing its title (Account).

Note: When you view an expense entry, only the fields in which you typed information are displayed.

3. To go to the bottom or top of an expense entry , hold CAP and press

and .

4. To go to the next or previous expense entry, if any, hold

✩

and press DN or UP.

To learn about editing expense entries, read “Editing Expense Entries.”

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Computing Expense Sums

After you have entered expense entries, you can calculate your total expenses by account and payment type.

1. Hold

✩

and press X. Or select Expenses from the Topics menu.

2. Press EDIT (blue) and highlight

Compute Account Sums or Compute Payment Type Sums.

3. Press ENTER.

To scroll down, use or DN.

4. Press BACK to go back to the Expenses menu.

Editing Expense Entries

➤

Deleting and Undeleting an

Expense Entry

You can delete any expense entry. You can also restore the most recently deleted expense entry by undeleting it.

To delete an expense entry, highlight it and press EDIT (blue) when the Expenses menu is on screen. Then highlight

Delete This Expense

and press ENTER.

Press D to delete it. To undelete the most recently de-

leted expense entry, select

Undelete Expense

from the

Expenses menu.

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You can use the Calculator

to add, subtract, multiply, divide,

and perform other math functions

such as percentages and square roots.

You can also save and retrieve the results of your calculations

for use in subsequent calculations.

Using the Calculator

Making Calculations ..................................................... 47

Saving and Retrieving Calculations.............................. 48

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Making Calculations

1. Hold

✩

and press M. Or select Calculator from the Topics menu.

2. Type a number (e.g., 721) by pressing the number ed keys.

To erase numbers, use BACK. T o type a negative number, press

before typing a number . To type a decimal, press the period

key.

3. Press one of the arrow keys to type a math symbol (e.g., ÷).

4. Type another number (e.g., 13).

5. Press ENTER to calculate.

Making Calculations

➤

Using Other Math Functions

You can perform the following math functions by typing a number in the Calculator and then using these key combinations:

To... Use...

convert to a percentage

✩

+ H

square a number

✩

+ J

calculate a square root

✩

+ K

calculate a reciprocal

✩

+ L

6. To repeat the calculation, press ENTER again.

7. Press the UP or DN key to view your calculation(s).

You can do more calculations now, if you like.

8. Press CLEAR to erase the current calculation(s).

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You can save the results of your calculations and the retrieve them for use in other calculations.

1. Make a calculation.

To learn how , r ead “Making Calculations.”

2. Press EDIT (blue).

3. Press ENTER to select Save This Result.

4. Type a name for the result (e.g., calc1).

The name can contain numbers but should not begin with a number.

5. Press ENTER to save the r esult.

6. To retrieve the result, first press EDIT (blue).

7. Then select Use Previous Result.

8. Select a result.

9. Press an arr ow key to use the result in the next calculation.

➤ A Quick Way to Retrieve a Result

You can quickly retrieve a result by typing its name at the Calculator main screen and pressing ENTER.

For example, you could retrieve the result in the previous example by entering this at the Calculator:

To type the top row of letters in the Calculator, hold

✩

and press the

numbered keys. Note: If you type a number first at

the Calculator main screen, you can not type letters after it.

➤

Deleting a Previous Result

To delete a previously saved result, press EDIT (blue) at the Calculator main screen and select

Delete

Previous Result

. Then highlight a re-

sult to delete and press ENTER.

Saving and Retrieving

Calculations

Saving and Retrieving

Calculations

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The BOOKMAN® Sidekick® Connectivity software is a powerful tool

for sending information between your BOOKMAN Sidekick

and your personal computer . Before you can send information,

you must first link the files that you want to either transfer or merge.

The simplest and quickest way to combine

all your linked BOOKMAN Sidekick and PC Sidekick files

is to use the Merge All option. To perform more complicated transfers or

merges of individual pairs of linked files, use the Advanced T ransfer option.

If you make a mistake when transferring or merging files, you can

easily recover your most recently transferred or merged PC Sidekick files.

In addition, for storage and safety, you can back up and restore

all the files from your BOOKMAN Sidekick to your computer,

even if you do not have PC Sidekick.

The Equipment You Need ............................................. 50

Connecting the Serial Cable......................................... 50

Installing the Connectivity Software ............................ 51

Starting the Connectivity Software .............................. 52

Testing Your Connection .............................................. 53

Linking Files ................................................................. 54

Merging All Linked Files .............................................. 57

Advanced Transfers and Merging ................................ 60

Recovering Files ........................................................... 62

Backing up and Restoring Files.................................... 63

Solutions to Common Problems ................................... 64

Using the Connectivity Software

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To use the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software, you need:

• The BOOKMAN PC-connect serial

cable and the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software disk, packaged with certain BOOKMAN Sidekick models and available only from Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.

• An IBM PC Compatible, 386 processor

or higher .

• Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later ,

or Windows 95.

• Minimum of 2 MB RAM (4 MB is rec-

ommended).

• Minimum of 2 MB hard disk space .

• One available communications (COM)

port on your computer .

• One 3.5” high density floppy disk drive.

If you have questions about Sidekick PC software, see your owner’s manual or call Starfish Software. For installation or initial configuration questions, call 1 (970) 522-4610. For all other questions, call 1 (800) 953-9995. Or visit the Starfish Software web site at

http://www.starfishsoftware.com

Before you can start using the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software, you must first connect the Franklin BOOKMAN PCconnect serial cable between your BOOKMAN Sidekick and your computer .

Warning: Using a different serial cable may damage your BOOKMAN Sidekick files, as well as your BOOKMAN Sidekick itself or your computer.

1. Turn off your computer.

2. Locate a free communications port on the back of your computer.

To learn how to find a communications port, read the user manual for your personal computer.

3. Insert the 9-pin plug into the communications port.

Note which communications port you used (for example, COM1). You will need this information when you start using the connectivity software.

4. Turn on your computer.

5. Turn of f your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

The Equipment You Need

Connecting the Serial Cable

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Here is how to install the connectivity software for Windows version 3.1 or later, or Windows 95. This section assumes a basic understanding of the Windows environment.

Note: If you upgrade your PC Sidekick software at a later date, you must reinstall the connectivity software and select the appropriate Sidekick version.

Caution: After you have installed the connectivity software, you will be prompted to reboot Windows.

1. Insert the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity disk into a 3.5” floppy disk drive.

2. If you are using Windows 3.1 or later, select Run from the File menu in the Program Manager. If you are using Windows 95, select Run from the Start menu.

3. Type a:\setup and then click OK (with a:\ being the letter of your

3.5” floppy drive).

Installing the

Connectivity Software

Connecting the Serial Cable

6. Firmly insert the 3.5 mm plug completely into the serial port on the right side of your BOOKMAN Sidekick and turn on your BOOKMAN.

Read “Special BOOKMAN Features” for a diagram of the serial port’ s location.

Caution: Make sure the serial cable plug is pushed all the way into the serial port on your BOOKMAN Sidekick. If a secure connection is not made, you will not be able to send files between your BOOKMAN and computer.

To disconnect your BOOKMAN Sidekick, it is recommended that you remove the 3.5 mm plug from your BOOKMAN Sidekick and leave the 9-pin plug inserted in the communications port.

➤

Connectivity Help is Always

at Hand

You can view a help message at virtually any window in the connectivity software by clicking

Help

on your computer . Use the scroll bars to read the help message. T o exit help, click

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Once you have connected the serial cable and installed the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software on your computer, you can start using the connectivity software.

1. On your computer, start the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity Software.

If you are using Windows, doubleclick the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity icon.

If you are using Windows 95, select

Programs/BOOKMAN/BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity

from the Start menu or double-click the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity icon in the BOOKMAN window. Note: If you close the BOOKMAN window , the icon cannot be accessed again.

2. When the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window appears, click the COM port pull down menu to match the communications port to which you connected the serial cable.

4. At the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity Software Installation screen, click OK.

5. Select the version of PC Sidekick that is installed on your computer and then click OK.

If you do not have a version of PC Sidekick installed on your computer , select

Sidekick not installed on PC

. This will allow you to only backup and restore your files.

6. T ype the destination drive and directory and then click OK.

Or, click

Cancel

to stop the installation.

The default directory is

C:/BOOKSDK

7. Click OK.

8. Click Yes to reboot Windows.

When you reboot Windows, a new program group called BOOKMAN appears, containing the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity icon. If you do not reboot, this window and icon will not be created.

Installing the

Connectivity Software

Starting the

Connectivity Software

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Once you have selected a communications port, you do not need to select it again, unless you change the port you are using.

3. On your BOOKMAN Sidekick, press MENU, highlight PC Connect on the Setup menu, and then press ENTER.

The BOOKMAN Sidekick remains in this state until you start linking, transferring, or merging.

4. You now can test the connection.

T o learn how, read “Testing Your Connection.”

Testing Your Connection

You should test the connection when you connect your BOOKMAN Sidekick and your computer for the first time, whenever you have disconnected the serial cable, or if you forget which communications port you are using.

Note: You do not need to select a COM port on the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window before you click

Test

1. At the main window of the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software, click Test.

The BOOKMAN Sidekick Port Finder window appears.

2. Click Start.

If the Status box says that your BOOKMAN Sidekick is not detected on any communications port, make sure that the serial cable is fully inserted in the serial port and that you have selected

PC Connect

from the Setup menu of

your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

3. Click OK when finished.

Make sure the selected COM port matches the communications port found by the test.

Starting the Connectivity Software

➤

Shutoff During Connection

If your BOOKMAN Sidekick automatically shuts off while connected to your computer , do not wor ry. Simply turn your BOOKMAN Sidekick back on and then select

PC Connect

from the

Setup menu to reconnect.

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Linking Files

Before you can merge or transfer files, you must first link them in pairs. When you link a pair of files, you create a connection between a BOOKMAN Sidekick file and a PC Sidekick file. Linking itself does not merge or transfer information from one file to another . Note: You only need to link the files that you want to merge or transfer .

There are three linking options:

• Linking T wo Existing Files: This option links an existing BOOKMAN Sidekick file to an existing PC Sidekick file.

• Linking a New BOOKMAN Cardfile: This option links an existing PC Sidekick cardfile to a new BOOKMAN Sidekick cardfile.

• Linking a New PC Sidekick File: This option links an existing BOOKMAN Sidekick file to a new PC Sidekick file.

Note: You can only link expenses in the Sidekick 95 version or later, not in the Sidekick 2.0 version.

Caution: If your BOOKMAN Sidekick and your computer are not prop-

erly connected, you will not be able to link files. Read “Testing Your Connection” for more information.

To Link T wo Existing Files

1. On the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window, click Link.

The Link Databases dialog box appears. Y ou can exit this window by clicking

Cancel

. This will remove all

links currently selected in this window .

2. Click the Database Type pull down menu to select the type of file you want to link.

Note: This screen display and any others in “Using the Connectivity Software” were taken from Windows 3.1. If you are using Windows 95, or any

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later version, your screen may vary.

3. Click the BOOKMAN Sidekick file to highlight it.

4. Click Link To PC File.

You can also select a BOOKMAN Sidekick file to link to a PC Sidekick file by simply double-clicking the BOOKMAN Sidekick file at the Link Databases dialog box.

5. Select a directory and then highlight a PC Sidekick file.

6. Click OK.

The pair of linked files now appear side by side.

7. Link more files, if desired.

If needed, change the database type.

8. Click OK again to return to the main window .

T o Link a New BOOKMAN Cardfile

Note: A new BOOKMAN Sidekick file is not actually created until you transfer or merge the file from your computer to your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

Linking Files

1. On the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window, click Link.

2. Select Cards as the Database Type.

3. Click New BOOKMAN File.

4. Type the name of the new BOOKMAN Sidekick cardfile to be created.

5. Click Link.

6. Highlight a PC Sidekick file.

Or you can click

Cancel

to return to the

Create BOOKMAN File

dialog box.

7. Click OK.

The new BOOKMAN Sidekick Cardfile will be double bracketed (

<<sample>>

8. Click OK again to return to the main window.

To Link a New PC Sidekick File

Note: The PC Sidekick file is not actually created until you transfer or merge the file from your BOOKMAN Sidekick to your personal computer.

1. On the main window, click Link.

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Linking Files Linking Files

➤

Maintaining and Removing

Links

You do not need to relink your files every time you use the connectivity software. Even if you turn off your computer, your linked files remain linked until you unlink them, or delete or rename a file.

To unlink a pair of linked files, first click

Link

to go to the Link Databases dialog box. Then click a pair of linked files and click

Unlink

➤

Linking Multiple BOOKMAN

Cardfiles

You can link a single PC Sidekick cardfile to multiple BOOKMAN Sidekick cardfiles.

However, if you link a PC Sidekick cardfile to more than one BOOKMAN Sidekick cardfile and then click

Merge All

, the linked BOOKMAN Sidekick cardfiles merge in the order that they appear in the Link Databases dialog box.

➤

Updating Your Links

If you add, delete or rename the cardfiles on your BOOKMAN Sidekick while using the connectivity software, and these changes do not appear on the Link Databases dialog box, you should update your links.

From the main window, select

Update

Links

from the File menu. This checks your BOOKMAN Sidekick for changes made to your cardfiles and then automatically updates your links.

2. Select a Database Type.

3. Highlight a BOOKMAN Sidekick file.

4. Click Link To PC File.

5. Type the name of the new PC Sidekick file to be created.

You do not need to type a file extension because the connectivity software automatically adds one.

6. Click OK twice to return to the main window .

The new PC Sidekick file is double bracketed (

<<SAMPLE>>

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Merging All Linked Files

1. On the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window, click Merge All.

Before you merge all your files, you must first link them. To learn how, read “Linking Files.”

If you are currently running PC Sidekick, it will automatically quit when you transfer or merge.

2. If you are overwriting data to your BOOKMAN Sidekick, click OK.

3. If duplicate records are found, select one of the three options and then click OK.

Merging All Linked Files

Once you have linked files, the simplest way to combine your BOOKMAN Sidekick and PC Sidekick files is to merge all your linked files. Please note,

Merge All

is the recom-

mended way to combine your linked files. Merging all your linked files saves all their

nonidentical entries on both your BOOKMAN Sidekick and your PC Sidekick. Identical entries in your linked files remain unchanged. The result is linked files that are identical on both your BOOKMAN Sidekick and PC Sidekick.

Caution: When you merge files, the previously existing linked files on your BOOKMAN Sidekick and computer are overwritten.

If: Two entries are found in which all

the field information matches,

If: Two entries are found with

matching index field information, but with different non-index fields,

If: Two entries are found in which one

or more index fields do not match,

Then: One entry will appear in both

files.

Then: You must decide which entry to

save in both files. To learn how, read “Understanding Duplicate Records.”

Then: Both entries will appear in both

files.

➤

More Information About Merging Entries

➔

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Merging All Linked Files

To learn more, read “Understanding Duplicate Records.”

4. If the Merge Options dialog box appears, click one of the four buttons.

The Merge Options dialog box appears only if you are merging two cardfiles that have one or more nonidentical field names. Here is what the buttons do:

•

Use PC Only

copies all the field

names from the PC Sidekick file.

•

Use BOOKMAN Only

copies all the field names from the BOOKMAN Sidekick file.

•

Use All Fields

copies all of the unique field names from both the PC Sidekick file and the BOOKMAN Sidekick file.

Merging All Linked Files

•

Cancel

stops these two files from

merging.

5. If you are merging Calendars, the Date Range dialog box will appear. If needed, change the start and end dates and then click OK.

Or click

Ignore

to merge all of the

entries from both Calendars. Warning: If you select a date

range, all the entries on your BOOKMAN Sidekick outside the selected range will be permanently erased. To learn more about merging Calendars, read “Transferring Calendars.”

When the main window appears, your files are merged.

➤

Merging Your Notes

If you merge a pair of linked notefiles, all note folders with identical names will be saved in both notefiles. All nonidentical notes in either note folder will be saved to both files, and all identical notes in both note folders will remain unchanged.

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Merging All Linked Files

in their other fields. When the Duplicate Record dialog box appears you must choose one of these options:

•

Use...from Sidekick

saves the entry from the PC Sidekick file and discards the entry from the BOOKMAN Sidekick file.

•

Use...from BOOKMAN

saves the entry from the BOOKMAN Sidekick file and discards the entry from the PC Sidekick file.

•

Both

saves the entries from both the BOOKMAN Sidekick file and the PC Sidekick file.

The

Preference

box lets you choose how carefully you want to look at future duplicate records.

Continue Querying on Each Occurrence

allows you to examine each

pair of duplicate records.

Use Same Selection for Future Occurrences

automatically applies the current selection to all future duplicate records in this current file.

➤

Merging New Files

It is also possible to merge an existing file, either a PC Sidekick or BOOKMAN Sidekick file, to a newly created file. For example, if you linked an existing PC Sidekick cardfile to a new BOOKMAN cardfile, you can still click

Merge All. Merge

All

adds all of the entries from the

existing file to the new file.

➤

Understanding Duplicate

Records

Each BOOKMAN Sidekick entry, or record, has up to three index fields. Index fields contain the information that is displayed in menu items on your BOOKMAN Sidekick. Index fields are also used for sorting entries and files on your PC Sidekick.

The Duplicate Record Assignment dialog box appears whenever you try to merge two entries that have identical information in their index fields, but have different information

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Once you have linked files, you can transfer or merge individual linked files between the computer and your BOOKMAN Sidekick using the Advanced Transfer button.

Transferring, like merging, sends entries between your BOOKMAN Sidekick and the computer. But unlike merging, transferring copies all the entries from one file and overwrites them in the other, thereby deleting all the previous entries in the file copied to. For example, if you transfer a cardfile from your computer to your BOOKMAN Sidekick, all the cards in the BOOKMAN cardfile will be replaced by the cards in the cardfile from PC Sidekick.

Caution: Before you transfer files from your computer to your BOOKMAN Sidekick, you may want to check the memory gauge on your BOOKMAN Sidekick to make sure that it has enough memory available to hold the new files. Read “Gauging the Memory” for more information.

Note: To recover the PC Sidekick files that you most recently transferred, read “Recovering Files.”

1. On the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window, click Advanced Transfer.

This is the Transfer Databases dialog box.

A right pointing arrow (⇒) indicates that entries can be transferred or merged only from a BOOKMAN Sidekick file to a (new) PC Sidekick file.

A left pointing arrow (⇐) indicates that entries can be transferred or merged only from a PC Sidekick file to a (new) BOOKMAN Sidekick file.

A double pointing arrow (⇔) indicates entries can be transferred or

Advanced Transfers

and Merging

Advanced T ransfers and Merging

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merged to or from both files.

2. Select a Database Type.

3. Click the linked pair that you want to transfer or merge.

in the check box to the left of files indicates they are selected for transferring or merging. To deselect files, click them again.

4. Do one of the following: To... Click...

Transfer the file(s)

To BOOKMAN

from PC to your BOOKMAN

Transfer the file(s)

To PC

from your BOOKMAN to the PC

Merge your PC

Merge

and BOOKMAN files

5. Click OK to transfer or merge.

Or click

Cancel

to stop.

6. Click OK again to return to the main window .

➤ Transferring Calendar Entries

Using

Advanced Transfer

, you can transfer or merge one or more calendar entry types: appointments, To Do items, calls, multi-day events, and special days.

To select a calendar entry type, first change the Database Type to

Calen-

dars

. Then highlight one or more calendar entry types to select it. To deselect an entry type, highlight it again. You can now transfer or merge the calendar entries.

When you merge calendar entries between your BOOKMAN Sidekick and your PC Sidekick, the Date Range dialog box appears. By setting the date range, you trim your BOOKMAN Sidekick to display only the calendar entries within that range. To merge all your calendar entries, click

Ignore

Note: If you use

Merge All

, you will not be able to transfer a specific calendar entry type.

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Recovering Files

Every time you transfer a file from your BOOKMAN Sidekick to your computer , as well as every time that you merge a pair of linked files, a recovery file is created on your computer. Recovery files contain all the information from the PC Sidekick file that was overwritten when you merged that file or transferred to that file.

Caution: Recovery files contain information from only the most recent time that a PC Sidekick file was transferred or merged. Each time a file is transferred or merged to a PC Sidekick file, its recovery file is overwritten.

Recovery files are saved in a subdirectory , called

Recovery

, located in the same directory as the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software. All recovery files retain their original names and extensions. You can retrieve recovery files in PC Sidekick, by opening the

Recovery

subdirectory,

and selecting a recovery file. Caution: If you attempt to transfer or

merge a recovery file, you risk losing the information which was saved in the recovery file.

Advanced T ransfers and Merging

➤

Merging and Transferring

Notes from Sidekick 95

In Sidekick 95, notes are referred to as Write files, which contain text that can be formatted as you would a word processing file (e.g., bolding, italicizing, font size, paragraph alignment, etc.).

If you transfer or merge a Write file to your BOOKMAN Sidekick and then

transfer

the same file back to your computer, its text formatting will be lost.

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Backing up and Restoring Files

Even if you do not have PC Sidekick, you can back up all the information on your BOOKMAN Sidekick into one file on your computer. This file can be restored later for use on your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

Warning: If you open the backup file as a text file on your computer, you may damage or alter the file. The damaged backup file cannot be restored to your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

This file will be stored in the same directory as the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software. The backup file is an image file, called

Bookman.img

. The backup file is overwritten each time that you back up your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

Note: The time it takes to back up or restore your BOOKMAN Sidekick files can vary from five minutes to forty-five minutes or longer, depending on the amount of information.

T o Back up Your Files

1. From the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window, select Backup from the File menu to back up all your BOOKMAN Sidekick files.

2. When your backup is completed, click OK.

T o Restore Y our Files

Warning: When you restore your BOOKMAN Sidekick files from the backup file all your current BOOKMAN Sidekick files will be overwritten.

1. From the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window, select Restore from the File menu.

If you do not have

Bookman.img

in the same directory as the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software, this option will not be available.

2. Click OK to r estore your files, or Cancel to not restore them.

Backing up

and Restoring Files

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I clicked

Test

to discover which communications port is being used, and the screen says that BOOKMAN Sidekick is not found on my system.

Do one of the following:

• Make sure that you are using the Franklin BOOKMAN PC-connect serial cable. No other cable will work with your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

• Make sure the cable is inserted as far as it will go into the serial port, and not the headphone jack, on your BOOKMAN Sidekick. Read “Special BOOKMAN Features” for more information.

• Make sure that the cable is properly connected to a communications port on your computer.

• Make sure that your BOOKMAN Sidekick is turned on and

Connect

is selected from the Setup menu on your BOOKMAN Sidekick.

I do not have the BOOKMAN PCconnect serial cable or the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software disk.

To order one or both, contact Franklin Electronic Publishers.

While installing the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software, I realize that I do not want to reboot Windows.

Click

Cancel

. This will return you to

the Windows main window .

I have installed the connectivity software, but I cannot find its program icon.

The BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity icon should appear in the newly created BOOKMAN program group. If one or both do not appear , Install the connectivity software again. To learn how, read “Installing the Connectivity Software.”

Solutions to Common

Problems

Solutions to Common Problems

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Solutions to Common Problems

A Data Error dialog box appears, saying

Unable to receive data from

the BOOKMAN

The Data Error dialog box appears when you are linking files, merging all your files, or using the Advanced Transfer option. Do one of the following:

• Click

and make sure the COM Port to matches the communications port in which the serial cable was inserted.

• Click

and then click

Test

to test

your connection.

The Retrieving File Descriptors box has remained on for over one minute without any progress.

If you have a large amount of information in your BOOKMAN Sidekick, there may be a short delay before progress is shown.

When transferring or merging files, I realized that I did not intend to overwrite a PC Sidekick file.

Every time that a BOOKMAN Sidekick file is transferred to your computer and every time a pair of Sidekick files are merged, a PC Sidekick recovery file is created.

To learn how to recover the file, read “Recovering Files.”

Note: Only the information that existed before the most recent transfer or merge is contained in a recovery file.

I realized that I did not intend to overwrite a BOOKMAN Sidekick file.

There is no way to recover a BOOKMAN Sidekick file if it is overwritten due to a transfer or merge.

In the future, you may want to create a backup file to insure that your files will not be permanently lost. To learn how , read “Backing up and Restoring Files.”

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Solutions to Common Problems

In Windows 95, I opened a Write file and all its text formatting is gone.

Any new notes or note folders that were added to the Write file because of a merge will have no text formatting. But any previously existing notes or note folders in the Write file retain their original formatting.

All text formatting in Write files is automatically deleted when you transfer a notefile from your BOOKMAN Sidekick to your computer . Y ou may be able to recover your formatting by recovering the notefile. Read “Recovering Files” for more information.

BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity

Software Copyrights

Copy and use restrictions for BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software

Although you are encouraged to make a backup copy of the Software for your own use, you are not allowed to make unlimited copies. The Software is protected by the copyright laws that pertain to computer software. It is illegal to make copies of the Software except for backups. It is illegal to give copies to another person, or to duplicate the Software by any other means, including electronic transmission. The Software contains trade secrets, and in order to protect them you may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to human-perceivable form. Y ou may not modify, adapt, translate, rent, lease, loan, resell for profit, distribute, network or create derivative works based upon the Software or any part thereof.

Limitations of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL ST ARFISH OR FRANKLIN BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES FOR YOUR USE, MISUSE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE OR RELA TED DOCUMENTATION. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMIT ATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENT AL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF FRANKLIN AND OR STARFISH TO YOU FOR ANY AND ALL DAMAGES AND LOSSES FOR ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SOFTW ARE.

Disclaimer of software warranty

BOOKMAN SIDEKICK CONNECTIVITY SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS-IS” AND STARFISH AND FRANKLIN EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES ON THE SOFTW ARE AND RELA TED DOCUMENTATION, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. FRANKLIN EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY THA T THE OPERA TION OF THE SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED; AND STARFISH AND FRANKLIN DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY CONCERNING THE CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, OR RELIABILITY OF THE SOFTWARE, OR RELATED DOCUMENT ATION, OR ANY SERVICE PROVIDED TO YOU THROUGH USE OF THE SOFTWARE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

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Doing a Factory Reset

Warning: Doing a factory reset permanently erases all the records saved in your BOOKMAN Sidekick. Unless you want to erase all your information, do not perform a factory reset.

In addition, when you do a factory reset, any settings that you have changed, such as the screen contrast or help message language, are reset to their default settings. Also, all sample cardfiles or note folders (e.g.,

Folder 1

) will be restored but they will

not contain any notes or cards.

1. Press MENU.

2. On the Setup menu, highlight

Factory Reset.

3. Press ENTER.

4. Press F to start the factory reset. Or press any other key to exit without doing a factory reset.

If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to respond, or if its screen performs erratically, first press CLEAR and then press ON/OFF twice. If nothing happens, follow the steps below to reset it.

Warning: Pressing the reset button with more than very light pressure may permanently disable your BOOKMAN Sidekick. In addition, resetting your BOOKMAN Sidekick restores certain settings to their defaults, and may erase user-entered information in any installed book cards.

1. Hold CLEAR and press ON/OFF.

If nothing happens, try Step 2.

2. Use a paperclip to gently press BOOKMAN’s reset button.

The reset button is recessed in a pin-sized hole on the front of your BOOKMAN, near the ON/OFF key.

Resetting Your BOOKMAN

This unit may change operating modes due to Electro-static Discharge. Normal operation of this unit can be re-established by pressing the reset key, ON/OFF, or by removing/replacing batteries.

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Model: SDK-561

• size: 12 x 8.3 x 1.4 cm

• weight: 4 oz

• memory: 128 kb

• records: 20-characters: approx. 6,500

30-characters: approx. 4,333

• ISBN 1-56712-261-2

Model: SDK-563

• size: 12 x 8.3 x 1.4 cm

• weight: 4 oz

• memory: 512 kb

• records: 20-characters: approx. 19,500 30-characters: approx. 12,999

• ISBN 1-56712-311-2

Model: SDK-565

• size: 12 x 8.3 x 1.4 cm

• weight: 4 oz

• memory: 1 mb

• records: 20-characters: approx. 45,500 30-characters: approx. 30,331

• ISBN 1-56712-312-0

Specifications Copyrights and Patents

FCC Notice: Complies with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to Subpart B of part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference; and (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

U.S. Patents 4,490,811; 4,830,618; 4,891,775; 4,982,181; 5,113,340; 5,203,705; 5,218,536; 5,229,936; 5,295, 070; 5,333,313; 5,007,019; 5,153,831; 5,249,965; 5,321,609; 5,396,606; European Patent 0 136 379; Deutsch Pats. M 9409743.7 and M 9409744.5. Pat. Pend.

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Limited Warranty

(U.S. only)

FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., One Franklin Plaza, Burlington, NJ 080164907, within one year of purchase. Alternatively, FRANKLIN may, at its option, refund your purchase price. Data contained in the BOOKMAN PRODUCT may be provided under license to FRANKLIN. FRANKLIN makes no warranty with respect to the accuracy of data in the BOOKMAN PRODUCT. No warranty is made that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will run uninterrupted or error free. Y ou assume all risk of any damage or loss from your use of the BOOKMAN PRODUCT. This warranty does not apply if, in the sole discretion of FRANKLIN, the BOOKMAN PRODUCT has been tampered with, damaged by accident, abused, misused, or misapplication, or as a result of service or modification by any party , including any dealer, other than FRANKLIN. This warranty applies only to products manufactured by or for FRANKLIN. Batteries, corrosion, or battery contacts and any damage caused by batteries are not covered by this warranty . NO FRANKLIN DEALER, AGENT, OR EMPLOYEE IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY ADDITIONAL WARRANTY IN THIS REGARD OR TO MAKE ANY MODIFICATION OR EXTENSION OF THIS EXPRESS WARRANTY. THE FOREGOING WARRANTY IS EXCLUSIVE AND IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, WRITTEN OR ORAL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY SHALL BE FRANKLIN’S OBLIGATION TO REPLACE OR REFUND AS SET FORTH ABOVE IN THIS WARRANTY. Some States do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, or limitations on how long a warranty lasts. This warranty gives you specific rights; you may also have additional rights which vary from State to State. This warranty shall not be applicable to the extent that enforcement of any provision may be prohibited by applicable law. FRANKLIN SHALL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER INDIRECT LOSS OR DAMAGE, ARISING OUT OF YOUR PURCHASE, THE MANUFACTURE OR SALE OF THE BOOKMAN PRODUCT, THIS LICENSE, OR ANY OBLIGA TION RESUL TING THEREFROM OR THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE BOOKMAN PRODUCT UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER BREACH OF CONTRACT , T ORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION OR PROCEEDING, WHICH DAMAGES SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED T O, LOST PROFITS, DAMAGES TO PROPERTY, OR PERSONAL INJUR Y (BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW). FRANKLIN’S ENTIRE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM OR LOSS, DAMAGE, OR EXPENSE FROM ANY SUCH CAUSE SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE PRICE PAID FOR THE BOOKMAN PRODUCT. THIS CLAUSE SHALL SURVIVE FAILURE OF AN EXCLUSIVE REMEDY. This license and warranty is governed by the laws of the United States and the State of New Jersey .

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Index

?* key 31, 38 Accenting letters 12, 26 Adding

cards to cardfiles 30 notes to note folders 37

Advanced T ransfer 60, 61 Alarms

appointments 21 daily 17, 18

Appointments 21, 23-25, 27 Arrows

flashing 11 keys 4

Auto-resume feature 14 Automatic shutoff time

described 10 with BOOKMAN Sidekick

Connectivity software 52

Backing up files 63 Batteries

installing 8 low warning 8

Book cards

installing 8 removing 8

BOOKMAN PC-connect serial

cable 50, 64

BOOKMAN Sidekick port finder 53

BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity

software

backing up and restoring riles 63 BOOKMAN window 52 equipment needed 50 copyrights 66 help text 51 icon 52 installing 64

if PC Sidekick is installed 51

if PC Sidekick is not installed 52 linking files 54 merging all linked files 57 merging individual files 60 recovering files 62 starting, using icon or menus 52 testing the connection 53 transferring files 60 troubleshooting 64

Calculator

basic math functions 47 deleting previous results 48 making calculations 47 naming results 48 other math functions 47 repeating calculations 47 saving calculations 48 using previous results 48

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Index

Calendar

Daily view 23 merging files 58 Monthly view 25 transferring files 61 Weekly view 24

Calendar entries

creating 21, 22 deleting 26 duplicating 22 icons of 24 partial word searches 27 searching 26 understanding 21

Calls 21-23, 26 Capital letters in searches 33, 40 CARD (green) key 4 Cardfiles

creating 29, 30 deleting 29 described 28, 29 naming 29 renaming 30 templates 29, 30 viewing 31, 32

Cardfiles Edit menu 30 Cardfiles menu 30, 31 Cards

adding to cardfiles 30 deleting 33 described 30 duplicating 31 editing 32 searching for 33, 34 searching for parts of words 34 undeleting 33 viewing 31, 32

Changing

automatic shutoff time 10 help message language 10 password 13 time/date format 10, 18 topics 11

Clock Edit menu 16, 19 Clock swapping 19 Clocks

changing the time/date format 18 daily alarm 17, 18 resetting after power loss 19 setting the Home Clock 16 setting the World Clock 17 swapping 19 understanding swapping 19

Color keys

understanding 4 using 9

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Index

Communications (COM) port

finding 50, 53 selecting 52 troubleshooting 64, 65

Computing expense sums 45 Connectivity software.

See

BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity software

Creating

cardfile templates 30 cardfiles 29, 30 cards 30 expense entries 43 files using the connectivity software

note folders 36 notes 37 program icon for connectivity

software 64

Daily (Calendar) view 22-27 Daily alarm

changing, setting 17 disabling 18

Data Error 65 Database T ype 54, 55, 61 Day/month/year format 18 Daylight Savings time 18 Decimals 47

Deleting

Calculator results 48 cardfiles 29 cards 33 expense entries 45 note folders 36 notes 40 password 13

Demonstration

disabling/enabling 10 viewing 10

Direction keys 4 Directory, selecting to install 52 Duplicate Record Assignment 59 Duplicate records 57, 59 Duplicate records, understanding 59 Duplicating

calendar entries 22 cards 31 notes 38

EDIT (blue) key 4, 33,

36-40, 43, 44, 45

Editing

cards 32 expense entries 44 notes 39

Expense entries

account type 43, 45

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amount 43 computing sums 45 creating 43 deleting 45 merging and transferring to a PC 43 payment type 43, 45 undeleting 45

Expenses menu 43, 45 Factory Reset 67 Files

advanced transfer and merging 60 backing up and restoring 63 linking 54-56 merging 59-61 merging all linked files 57-59 recovering (PC Sidekick) only 62 restoring backup files 63 transferring 60, 61 unlinking 56

FILES (red) key 4, 29-33 Finding your communications port 53 Full titles of menu items 31, 38 Gauging the memory 60 Headphone jack 6 Help messages

in BOOKMAN Sidekick 10 in connectivity software 51 language 10

tutorial 10

Home clock

setting

by changing time 16 by location or time zone 16

swapping with World clock 19

Home icon 16 Hyphens, typing 5 Icons

bell 18 calendar entries 24 Daily (Calendar) view 24 Home Clock 16 World Clock 17

Image file 63 Index fields 59 Installing

batteries 8 book cards 8

Key combinations 5 Language of help messages.

See

Help messages

Link Databases dialog box 54-56 Linking files

linking a new BOOKMAN cardfile 54, 55 linking a new PC Sidekick file 54, 55 linking pairs of files 54 linking two existing files 54

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maintaining and removing links 56 multiple BOOKMAN cardfiles 56 options 54 updating links 56

Locations

setting Home clock by 16 setting World clock by 17

Low battery warning 8 Maintaining links 56 Math functions 47 Memory Gauge 14, 60 Merge All button 57, 59 Merge Options dialog box 57, 58 Merging files

merging all linked files 57 merging calendar files 58 merging individual files 60, 61 merging new files 59 merging notefiles 58 merging Sidekick 95 notes 62

Monetary symbols 12 Month/day/year format 18 Monthly (Calendar) view 25 Multi-day events 21-23, 26, 27 Negative numbers, typing in Calcu-

lator 47

Note Folder Edit menu 37 Note folders

creating 36 deleting 36 described 35 renaming 36 searching 41 viewing 38, 39

Notes

adding to a note folder 37 deleting 40 described 35 duplicating 38 editing 39 merging 58 merging and transferring 62 searching for 40, 41 undeleting 40 viewing 38, 39

NOTES (yellow) key 4, 37-40 Notes menu 36, 38 Numbers, typing 5 Parts of words, searching for 27, 34, 41 Password

changing or deleting 13 if you forget it 14 setting 13

PC Connect 53, 64 Percentages 47 Port Finder window 53

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Problems with the connectivity

software 64

Punctuation marks 12 Rebooting Windows 51, 52, 64 Reciprocals 47 Recover subdirectory 62 Recovering files (PC Sidekick only)

Recovery files described 62 Recurring appointments

deleting 26 trimming the Schedule 27

Recurring special days 26 Renaming

cardfiles 30 note folders 36

Resetting BOOKMAN 67 Restoring backup files using the

connectivity software 63

Retrieving file descriptors 65 Saving changes 11 Schedule trimming 27 Screen contrast 10 Searching

cardfiles 33 for cards 33, 34 for notes 40, 41 for parts of words 27, 34, 41

note folders 40, 41

Selecting

books 9 communications (COM) port 52 database type for transferring or

merging 54 daylight or standard time 18 destination drive 52 PC Connect 52 topics 11

Serial cable 6, 52, 64, 65 Serial cable, connecting 50 Serial port

location of 6 using with BOOKMAN PC-Connect

serial cable 51, 64

Sidekick PC, questions about 50 Size and weight 68 Special characters

in searches 26, 33, 40 typing 12

Special days 21-23, 27 Special features 6 Specifications 68 Square roots 47 Squares of numbers 47 Standard time 18 Swapping Home and World clocks 19

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Templates (cardfiles) 30 Testing BOOKMAN/PC connection

53, 65

Time zones

setting Home clock by 16 setting World clock by 17

Time/date format 10, 18 To Do items 22, 23, 26 T ransfer Databases dialog box 60 T ransferring files 60, 61

calendar entries 61 Sidekick 95 notes 62

T rimming the schedule 27 T roubleshooting (connectivity soft-

ware) 64 Tutorial 10 Typing

accents 12, 26 decimals in Calculator 47 hyphens 5 letters 12 letters in Calculator 48 math symbols 47 monetary symbols 12 negative numbers in Calculator 47 numbers 12, 47 punctuation marks 12 special characters 12

Undeleting

cards 33 expense entries 45 notes 40

Unlinking files 56 Updating links 56 Upgrading to Sidekick 95 51 Viewing

cardfiles, cards 31, 32 connectivity help messages 51 demonstration 10 full titles of menu items 31, 38 help messages 10 note folders, notes 38, 39

Volume control 6 Weekly (Calendar) View 24, 25 World clock

setting 17 swapping with Home clock 19

Write files (Windows 95) 62, 66

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