Franklin IC-107 User Manual

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User’s Manual

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Getting Started......................................... 5

Install the Digital Book ...............................6

Select the Organizer..................................7

Move Between Topics ............................... 8

Learn About Special Menus ..................... 11

Learn About Searches..............................12

Explore the Tutorials................................. 14

Clock........................................................16

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

Schedule.................................................. 19

Making Schedule Entries..........................20

Finding Schedule Entries.......................... 23

Changing Schedule Entries ......................28

Calendar .................................................. 30

Finding Calendars ....................................31

Viewing Schedule Entries.........................34

Phone Book............................................. 36

Making Phone Book Entries ..................... 37

Finding Phone Book Entries .....................39

Contents

Changing Phone Book Entries .................43

World Time .............................................. 45

Finding Locations ..................................... 46

Adding Locations ......................................48

Changing Locations..................................50

Calculator ................................................ 53

Making Calculations ................................. 54

Saving Results.......................................... 56

Using Previous Results ............................ 57

Other Functions......................................59

Gauging Memory ......................................60

Naming Cards........................................... 61

Copying Cards..........................................62

More Functions.........................................63

Appendixes ............................................. 65

Digital Book System ................................. 66

Specifications ........................................... 70

Key Guide.................................................72

Index.........................................................74

Introduction

Congratulations. You now have a powerful, portable new way to be organized. The Franklin Personal Organizer has six main functions, or topics:

Clock, Schedule, Calendar, Phone Book, World Time, Calculator.

The Organizer can store up to 128 kilobytes of information that you enter. And its built-in, on-card battery protects your entries between sessions.

To acquaint yourself with all the topics, scan this User’s Manual before using the Organizer. Then read each section for in-depth instructions.

■ About User Notes Like This

Throughout this User’s Manual, gray-boxed user notes provide you with tips and advanced uses of the Organizer. Look for them.

Getting Started

If you’re using the Organizer

for the first time,

read this section.

Install the Digital Book

You must install the Organizer before you can use it. Here’s how.

1. Turn the Digital Book System off.

2. Insert the

3. Press .

4. To adjust the screen contrast, turn the wheel on the side of the Digital Book System.

5. If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.

■ Protect Your Information

Never install or remove digital books while the Digital Book System is on. If you do, information that you entered in those books may be erased.

digital book in a slot on the back.

Line up the book’s tabs with the notches in the slot. Then snap the book in place.

ON/OFF

Select the Organizer

Once it’s installed, you can select and start using the Organizer.

1. Press

CARD .

2. Press or to outline ORG.

3. Press

ENTER .

4. If you see the above message, press

If you’ve never used this Organizer before, the Clock appears. See “Setting the Clock,” p. 17.

■ Resuming Where You Left Off

After your first session, you go to the last screen that you saw when you start using the Organizer again.

E .

Move Between Topics

You can move between main functions, or topics, in the Organizer by selecting them from the Topic menu. Except for the first time, when you select a topic you go to the last screen that you saw in that topic.

1. Press to view the main menus.

2. If needed, press to highlight the Topic menu.

The check marks the currently selected topic.

3. Press or to highlight a topic.

4. To go to a screen in the highlighted topic, press .

5. To select another topic, repeat Steps 1 through 4.

ENTER

Move Between Topics

■ Follow the Arrows

The blinking arrows at the bottom of the screen show which arrow keys you can press to move around menus and other screens.

■ Zooming Between Topics

You can move more quickly between topics by pressing these Gold key combinations at any screen except a help message. Simply hold while pressing the other key.

To Zoom To. . . Press. . .

Phone

Book

Clock

+ Calendar (dates) World Time (

foreign) Calculator (math) Schedule

D F

+ +

To view your next Schedule entry, if any, press plus . Then, press .

BACK

Move Between Topics

■ Viewing Full Menu Items

Some menu items are too long to be fully displayed on a menu. In that case, the item is followed by ellipses, like this:

To view a full menu item, first press or to highlight the item, as above. Then press .

To return to the menu, press .

BACK

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Learn About Special Menus

All six topics have special menus. Special menus let you perform special tasks in a topic. You can view a special menu, if available, by pressing .

This is a special menu. Later in this User’s Manual, you’ll learn how to use every special menu. But note these general instructions.

● To select an item on a special menu, press or to highlight the item. Then press

ENTER

SPEC

● To exit a special menu, press .

NOTE: You can’t go to special menus from main menus or help messages.

BACK

Learn About Searches

All topics except the Clock and Calculator have search screens. At search screens, you can enter searches to find information in a topic. You can go to a search screen, if available, by pressing .

This is a search screen. At any search screen,

use these keys to enter searches.

To. . . Press. . .

type letters . . . type capital letters . . . type a space type numbers move the cursor

SHIFT

SPACE

CLEAR

Q WBE

erase characters clear the search

screen search

BACK

CLEAR

ENTER

Learn About Searches

■ Typing Punctuation Marks

At search screens and other screens at which you can type characters, press to view special punctuation marks not appearing on the keyboard.

Next, press the arrow keys to highlight a punctuation mark. Then press to type it.

You can also type these special punctuation marks, with or without pressing , by pressing plus plus one of the keys

SHIFT

shown above.

ENTER

Explore the Tutorials

For convenient instruction, the Organizer has a builtin tutorial for each topic as well as a general tutorial.

1. Press .

2. Press to highlight the Other menu.

3. If needed, press or to highlight Tutorial.

4. With Tutorial highlighted, press .

5. To view a tutorial, press and then .

ENTER

To move down, press or .

6. To view the next or previous tutorial, press plus or .

7. To return to the Other menu, press repeatedly.

BACK

Explore the Tutorials

■ Help is Always at Hand

At any screen, you can view a help message appropriate to your situation.

To... Press...

view a help message move down the message or exit the message

HELP

BACK

To zoom to the top or bottom of a help message, press plus or .

NOTE: To view a help message about all the Gold key combinations in the Organizer, press plus .

HELP

■ Viewing MORE Help

When you’re viewing certain help messages, you can view more help about your situation by pressing . A note near the end of the help message indicates if more help is available.

Clock

This section shows you

how to use the Clock. The Clock can be set

to any U.S. time zone,

standard or daylight savings time,

or any time zone used in a

World Time location.

The Organizer’s on-card battery

keeps the Clock running when the

Organizer is removed from

the Digital Book System.

Setting the Clock

You should set the Clock before using other topics, following these steps. You can change Clock settings later, in any order, from the Clock special menu.

1. If the Clock is not in view, Select the Clock from the Topic menu. Or press plus (for

2. Press .

SPEC

This is the Clock special menu.

3. If needed, press to highlight Set Time Zone.

4. With Set Time Zone highlighted, press .

5. To select a time zone, press or . Then press .

6. Press .

7. Press and then to select Daylight Savings.

ENTER

SPEC

ENTER

clock).

ENTER

Setting the Clock

8. Press or and then to select Summer Time or Standard Time.

9. Press .

10. Press and to select Set Date/Time.

SPEC

ENTER

11. Type a month, day, year, and time.

To type numbers, press the numbered keys. To change a line, press and then retype it.

12. Press at the last line. Or press

plus at any line.

■ Setting the Clock to World Times

ENTER

You can also set the Clock to any time zone in a World Time location. To learn how, see “Other Location Changes,” p. 52.

Schedule

This section shows you how to

use the Schedule.

The Schedule is

an electronic date book.

Using the Schedule, you can enter and find meetings, things to do,

annual events, and more.

Making Schedule Entries

Schedule entries are events—appointments, meetings, things to do—scheduled on a particular day. The first time that you use the Schedule, you must make a Schedule entry. In each Schedule entry, you must type an event description of up to 99 characters.

1. Select the Schedule from the Topic menu. Or press plus (for

If you’ve never used the Schedule, you go directly to the Schedule entry screen. (See Step 3 below.)

2. Press .

3. If needed, press plus to highlight New Entry.

4. With New Entry highlighted, press .

This is a Schedule entry screen.

5. Type a month, day, or year. Or press .

You need to type only the first letters of the month. To type numbers, press the numbered keys.

schedule).

ENTER

Making Schedule Entries

6. Type a time. Or press .

Type a for a.m. or p for p.m.

7. Type an event description.

To change a line, press and then retype it.

8. To add the entry to the Schedule, press

ENTER

at the last line. Or press plus

ENTER

at any line.

This is a sample Schedule entry.

9. Press to view the Schedule menu.

The Schedule entry is listed by date and time.

Making Schedule Entries

■ Making Annual Entries

You can add birthdays, anniversaries, and other annually recurring events to the Schedule. First, with the Schedule selected, press . Next, press . Then press or to

SPEC

highlight

Press and make your entry.

New Annual Entry.

ENTER

CLEAR

■ Saving or Discarding Changes

At any Schedule entry screen, you can save or discard your most recent changes. First, press

SPEC

. Then press or to highlight an item.

To select the highlighted item, press . Or, to exit the special menu, press .

ENTER

BACK

Finding Schedule Entries

Once you’ve made Schedule entries, you can find them using the Schedule search screen, the Locate menu in the Schedule, or by scanning the Schedule or Matches menus.

Searching for Entries

At the Schedule search screen, you can find Schedule entries by date or other searches (see p. 24).

1. With the Schedule selected, press .

You go to the Schedule search screen.

2. Type a date or other Schedule search.

CLEAR

To type numbers, press plus numbered keys.

3. To view the first matching entry, press .

ENTER

4. To view more matches, if any, press plus

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