Using Microsoft Office on the Pocket PC Nancy Clark, M.Ed. Director of Medical Informatics Education Florida State University College of Medicine

Objectives Effectively utilize Office tools on Pocket PC –Word –Excel –Outlook Transfer files to and from Desktop Select interface to Pocket Access

Resources –Computer Literacy –PDAs Tutorials – –Help and How to

Pocket Word Documents Procedures Guidelines Checklists Take notes

Tour of Screen Menu Bar Toolbar

Writing Options Keyboard – tap tap tap Block Recognizer –Graffiti Letter Recognizer –Grade school Transcriber –Write on the screen –Install from CD

Writing Options KeyboardBlock RecognizerLetter Recognizer

Block Recognizer Graffiti (Palm) Aa123

Letter Recognizer Jot (Palm) ABCabc123

Existing Word Documents Transfer to PDA –Put in Synchronize Files folder –Drag and drop into Mobile Device in My Computer Formatting loss –Tables dont work –Shorter is better

Pocket Excel Uses –Calculations –Tables of information –Calculators –Tracking numerical data

Tour of Screen Menus Tool bar Keyboard numeric key pad

Create Desktop Keep small format in mind What needs to be mobile Keep simple

Outlook Calendar Create appointments Edit appointments Recurring appointments Set notifications Views

Contacts Create contact Beam Contact

Inbox: on the PDA Wireless Create Send Reply File Delete

New Message Pick from contacts Record audio Quick (my) text Send Signatures

Cautions Very memory intensive 64 M main memory + POP only Leave copy on server Store attachments on memory card Clean out old mail Empty deleted items

Task List How OC are you? Create task Edit task Set priority Set reminder o o o o

Sync Settings Active Sync Options Pick applications you will use Turn off all the rest