Page 2 - License Agreement
1 License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN ELEC-TRONIC BOOK. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK DEEMS THAT YOU AC-CEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESETERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TOTHE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURC...
Page 3 - Contents; Getting Started
2 Contents Key Guide .......................... 4Special BOOKMAN Features 6 Getting Started Installing Batteries ................... 8Installing Book Cards ............... 8Selecting a Book ...................... 9Using the Color Keys ............... 9Viewing the Demonstration .... 10Changing the Se...
Page 5 - Key Guide; Color Keys; Direction Keys; Understanding the Color Keys
4 Key Guide Color Keys FILES (red) Cycles through the cardfiles. CALEND (green) Cycles through the calendar views. NOTES (yellow) Cycles through the note folders. E DIT (blue) Displays entry, search, edit, delete and other options. Direction Keys Moves through text or menus, or moves the cursor. In ...
Page 6 - Opens an entry to edit.; or
5 Key Guide Key Combinations* ✩ + BACK Exits a new or editedentry without saving. ✩ + C Toggles between theHome and World clock. ✩ + E DIT Opens an entry to edit. ✩ + ENTER Saves an entry. In theCalendar Daily view,checks or unchecks ToDo items and Calls. ✩ + H In the Calculator, con-verts a number ...
Page 7 - Special BOOKMAN Features
PC Serial Port Headphone Jack Volume Control Your BOOKMAN 770 is equipped withseveral special features that many, butnot all, BOOKMAN books use. Tolearn if you can use the special fea-tures with a particular BOOKMANbook, read its User’s Guide. Headphone Jack: The headphone jack is designed for 3.5 m...
Page 9 - Never install or remove a; the notches in a card slot.; Installing Book Cards; Install the batteries as shown; When you remove most
8 Warning: Never install or remove a book card when your BOOKMAN isturned on. If you do, information thatyou entered in any installed book cardsmay be erased. However, informationsaved in your BOOKMAN Sidekick willnot be erased. 1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.3. Align the book ca...
Page 10 - These are sample books.; or to highlight
9 Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys The red, green, yellow, and blue keyson your BOOKMAN change their func-tions according to which book you areusing. When you are using the built-in book,the color keys function as labelled onthe BOOKMAN keyboard. When youare using a book card, the color keysfun...
Page 11 - Press MENU until the main; Language
10 Viewing the Demonstration Before you start using your BOOKMANSidekick, you may want to see a briefdemonstration of what it can do. When a book card is not installed in yourBOOKMAN, the demonstration auto-matically appears after you turn on yourBOOKMAN. To stop the demonstration,press CLEAR. To di...
Page 12 - Selecting a Topic; Cardfiles
11 Your BOOKMAN Sidekick has sevenmain functions, or topics: Cardfiles,(Home) Clock, World Clock, Ex-penses, Calculator, Calendar, andNotes. Here is how to change theselected topic. 1. Press MENU until the main menus appear. 2. Use the arrow keys to high- light the Topics menu. 3. Highlight a topic....
Page 13 - To Type Letters and Accents; To accent a letter, type it and then hold; Typing Characters; To Type Numbers; and pressing; To Type Special Characters
12 Typing Characters Many of the topics in your BOOKMANSidekick let you type and save entriesthat consist of fields, or items of infor-mation. For example, below are fieldsin a single-day appointment. To Type Letters and Accents At fields that normally require letters,such as names and descriptions,...
Page 14 - Using a Password; If you lose or forget your; To Set Your Password; Set Password
13 Using a Password To limit access to your BOOKMAN Side-kick, you can assign a password that willbe required whenever you or anyoneelse turns on your BOOKMAN Sidekick. Caution: If you lose or forget your password, you will need to send yourBOOKMAN Sidekick to Franklin Elec-tronic Publishers to rega...
Page 15 - Gauging the Memory; Press MENU to return to the
14 Gauging the Memory The amount of memory in your BOOK-MAN Sidekick varies according to themodel. As you enter and transfer informa-tion into your BOOKMAN Sidekick, youwill occasionally need to check how muchmemory is available for more entries. 1. Press MENU.2. On the Setup menu, highlight Memory ...
Page 16 - Using the Clocks
15 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. Setting t...
Page 17 - Setting the Home Clock
16 The first time that you use yourBOOKMAN Sidekick, you should setthe Home Clock to the date and timein your time zone. 1. Hold ✩ and press C until the Home Clock appears. HOME or a home icon indicates theHome Clock. 2. Press EDIT (blue).3. Press ENTER to select Set Date and Time . Or hold ✩ and pr...
Page 18 - A world icon indicates the World Clock.
17 The Home Clock has an alarm that youcan set for waking up and other once-a-day uses. This single, daily alarmmakes a series of quick beeps thatstops after about 10 seconds.The daily alarm works even when yourBOOKMAN Sidekick is turned off. Whenthe daily alarm sounds, your BOOKMANSidekick is autom...
Page 19 - Changing the; A check marks the current format.; To Disable the Daily Alarm; Set Alarm Time
18 Changing the Time/Date Format You may want to change the format ofthe time and date on the clocks and inthe Calendar. The formats you can useare 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 Form...
Page 20 - Swapping the Clocks; and press C until the
19 Swapping the Clocks Once you have set both the Home andWorld Clocks, you can swap theirtimes and dates. Swapping the clocksis a useful feature if you frequentlytravel between time zones. 1. Hold ✩ and press C until the Home Clock appears. 2. Press EDIT (blue).3. On the Clock Edit menu, high- ligh...
Page 21 - Using the Calendar
20 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 ...
Page 22 - Highlight an entry type and; Appointment; Press ENTER to go to the next; Creating Calendar Entries; can be for a single; and press ENTER to; Or hold
21 Your calendar entries can be appointments(single-day and recurring), To Do items,calls, multi-day events, or special days. Youcan create new calendar entries from theDaily, Weekly, or Monthly calendar view. 1. Press CALEND (green).2. Press EDIT (blue).3. Press ENTER to select New Calendar Entry ....
Page 23 - Duplicating a Calendar Entry; To Do
22 Creating Calendar Entries A quick way to create a new calendarentry is to duplicate an existing entry.When you duplicate an entry, a newentry is opened with the same informa-tion as an existing entry. To save thenew entry, you must change at leastone field of information. 1. Press CALEND (green) ...
Page 24 - Using the Daily View
23 Using the Daily View go to the top of CLEAR the current Dailyview 3. Perform one of these functions: To... Press... view a full title ? ✻ check/uncheck ✩ + ENTER a completed ToDo item or callview an entry ENTER edit an entry ✩ + EDIT (blue) Note: When you check off a com-pleted To Do item or call...
Page 25 - Weekly; Using the Weekly View; This Icon; Press CLEAR to return to the
24 The Weekly view of the Calendar displaysyour appointments as bar charts showingtheir time ranges. 1. Press CALEND (green) until a Weekly view appears. Orpress CALEND (green), MENU,and then select Weekly . This is a sample Weekly view. Thebars indicate the time ranges ofyour appointments, with up ...
Page 26 - Monthly; To create a new calendar; Using the Monthly View; To create a new entry or
25 The Monthly view lets you quickly scan theCalendar for dates and calendar entries. 1. Press CALEND (green) until the Monthly view appears. Orpress CALEND (green), MENU,and then select Monthly . This is a sample Monthly view.The dots indicate dates withappointments. 2. Use the Direction keys. To.....
Page 27 - Search; Editing Calendar Entries; Edit; Searching for; Delete. Then press D to
26 You can search the Calendar for currentor future appointments, multi-day events,To Do items, calls and special days.Note: You can not search for calendarentries that are scheduled before the cur-rent date on your Home Clock. 1. At any Calendar view, press EDIT (blue). 2. Highlight Search and then...
Page 28 - Trimming the Schedule; Trim Schedule
27 Trimming the Schedule The Daily view of the first date thathas a match for your word(s) appears.Note: Multiple-word searches findonly entries containing all yoursearch words. 5. Hold ✩ and press DN or UP to go to the next or previousday, if any, with matches. 6. When finished, press CLEAR to clea...
Page 29 - Using Cardfiles
28 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 informat...
Page 30 - Creating a Cardfile; Business
29 Creating a Cardfile A cardfile is a collection, or database, ofcards. You can create six types of card-files by choosing one of the followingtemplates, or cardfile types: Business Address Book; Personal AddressBook; Email Address Book; Wine List;Hotels, Restaurants; and Music/CDCollection. Note: ...
Page 31 - Renaming a Cardfile; Rename; Creating Your Own Templates; Adding Cards; This is a sample Cardfile Edit menu.; Press ENTER to select; New; and
30 ➤ Renaming a Cardfile You can easily change the name ofa cardfile.At the Cardfiles menu, highlight thecardfile that you want to rename.Press EDIT (blue), highlight Rename Cardfile, and then press ENTER.Use BACK to erase the typed let-ters and then type your new cardfilename. Press ENTER to rename...
Page 32 - Viewing Cardfiles and Cards; cycle through your cardfiles.; Duplicating a Card; For example, you can use; and then
31 Viewing Cardfiles and Cards There are several ways to view and ac-cess 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 theCardfiles menu. To display the...
Page 33 - Editing Cards; Use BACK to erase typed characters.
32 Editing Cards After you have created a card, you canedit or change it. 1. Press FILES (red).2. To highlight a card, scroll to it or type the first few lettersof its title. 3. Hold ✩ and press EDIT (blue). Or press EDIT (blue) and then se-lect Edit This Card. 4. Enter your card information. Use BA...
Page 34 - Deleting and Undeleting a Card; ENTER to undelete that card.; Searching for Cards; the cardfile you want to search.; Search This Cardfile
33 ➤ Deleting and Undeleting a Card You can delete existing cards. Youcan also restore a deleted card byundeleting it.To delete a card, first use FILES(red) to find the desired cardfile andthen highlight the card you want todelete. If you want to view the cardbefore you delete it, press ENTER.Then p...
Page 35 - par will find entries with
Searching for Cards 6. Highlight a match and press ENTER. 7. Hold ✩ and press DN or UP to go to the next or previousmatch. 8. To go back to the list of matching cards, press BACK. 9. Press CLEAR to clear your search. ➤ Searching for Parts of Words You can search for words in cards bytyping the endin...
Page 36 - Using Notes
35 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 ....................................
Page 37 - Creating a Note Folder; Notes
36 Creating a Note Folder Before you can create notes, you mustfirst create note folders in which tohold them.Note: BOOKMAN Sidekick can holdonly one notefile, containing note fold-ers and notes, at a time. 1. Press NOTES (yellow). Or select Notes from the Topics menu. 2. Press MENU to go to the Not...
Page 38 - Adding Notes
37 Adding Notes Once you have created a note folder,you can create notes and add them toa folder. Each note consists of a sub-ject field and a note field. In their notefolders, notes are listed alphabeticallyby their subjects. 1. If needed, use NOTES (yellow) to find the notefolder into which you wa...
Page 39 - Duplicate; Duplicating a Note
38 There are several ways to view and ac-cess your notes and note folders. 1. Press NOTES (yellow) repeat- edly to cycle through yournote folders. To display the full title of a note,press ? ✽ . 2. To see a list of your note folders, press MENU to go tothe Notes menu. To display the full title of a ...
Page 40 - Editing Notes
39 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, onlythe 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 (bl...
Page 41 - Deleting and Undeleting a Note; Delete This; Editing a Note; Searching for Notes; light; Search This Notefile
40 ➤ Deleting and Undeleting a Note You can delete existing notes. Youcan also restore a deleted note byundeleting it.To delete a note, first use NOTES(yellow) to find the desired notefolder and then highlight the noteyou want to delete. If you want toview the note before you delete it,press ENTER. ...
Page 43 - Using Expenses; The Expenses topic tracks
42 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, remarks, and more. Then you can quickly calculate your total expenses according to their account and payment type...
Page 44 - Creating Expense Entries
43 You must enter an account and anamount in every expense entry. Youcan enter other information such asthe date and payment type (e.g., cash,check, etc.). Expense entries are listedalphabetically by their Accounts. 1. Hold ✩ and press X. Or select Expenses from the Topics menu. The Expenses menu is...
Page 45 - Editing Expense Entries; Expenses; Viewing Expense Entries
44 Editing Expense Entries Once you have created expense en-tries, you can edit them. Your changeswill be reflected when you computeyour 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 fewletters of its t...
Page 46 - Delete This Expense; Computing Expense Sums
45 Editing Expense Entries ➤ Deleting and Undeleting an Expense Entry You can delete any expense entry.You can also restore the most re-cently deleted expense entry byundeleting it.To delete an expense entry, high-light it and press EDIT (blue) whenthe Expenses menu is on screen.Then highlight Delet...
Page 47 - Using the Calculator
46 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 .........................
Page 48 - Making Calculations; Calculator
47 Making Calculations 1. Hold ✩ and press M. Or select Calculator from the Topics menu. 2. Type a number (e.g., 721 ) by pressing the numbered keys. To erase numbers, use BACK.To type a negative number, press before typing a number.To type a decimal, press the periodkey. 3. Press one of the arrow k...
Page 49 - Saving and Retrieving
48 You can save the results of your calcu-lations and the retrieve them for use inother calculations. 1. Make a calculation. To learn how, read “MakingCalculations.” 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 nu...
Page 50 - Using the Connectivity Software
49 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 al...
Page 51 - The Equipment You Need
50 To use the BOOKMAN Sidekick Con-nectivity software, you need:• The BOOKMAN PC-connect serial cable and the BOOKMAN SidekickConnectivity software disk, packagedwith certain BOOKMAN Sidekick mod-els and available only from FranklinElectronic Publishers, Inc. • An IBM PC Compatible, 386 processor or...
Page 52 - Installing the; Make sure the serial cable
51 Here is how to install the connectivitysoftware for Windows version 3.1 orlater, or Windows 95. This section as-sumes a basic understanding of theWindows environment. Note: If you upgrade your PC Sidekicksoftware at a later date, you must rein-stall the connectivity software and selectthe appropr...
Page 53 - Starting the
52 Once you have connected the serialcable and installed the BOOKMANSidekick Connectivity software onyour computer, you can start using theconnectivity software. 1. On your computer, start the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connec-tivity Software. If you are using Windows, double-click the BOOKMAN Sidekick Con-ne...
Page 54 - Testing Your Connection; You do not need to select a COM
53 Once you have selected a communi-cations port, you do not need to se-lect it again, unless you change theport you are using. 3. On your BOOKMAN Sidekick, press MENU, highlight PC Connect on the Setup menu, and then press ENTER. The BOOKMAN Sidekick remainsin this state until you start linking,tra...
Page 55 - Linking Files; To Link Two Existing Files; On the BOOKMAN Sidekick; Link; Click the Database Type pull
54 Linking Files Before you can merge or transfer files,you must first link them in pairs. Whenyou link a pair of files, you create a con-nection between a BOOKMAN Sidekickfile and a PC Sidekick file. Linking itselfdoes not merge or transfer informationfrom one file to another. Note: You onlyneed to...
Page 56 - To Link a New BOOKMAN Cardfile; Or you can click; To Link a New PC Sidekick File
55 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 BOOKMANSidekick file to link to a PC Sidekickfile by simply double-clicking theBOOKMAN Sidekick file at the LinkDatabases dialog box. 5. Select a directory and...
Page 58 - OK; OK; Merging All Linked Files
57 Merging All Linked Files 1. On the BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity main window,click Merge All. Before you merge all your files, youmust first link them. To learn how,read “Linking Files.”If you are currently running PCSidekick, it will automatically quitwhen you transfer or merge. 2. If you are ov...
Page 59 - When the main window
58 Merging All Linked Files To learn more, read “UnderstandingDuplicate Records.” 4. If the Merge Options dialog box appears, click one of thefour buttons. The Merge Options dialog box ap-pears only if you are merging twocardfiles that have one or more non-identical field names. Here is what thebutt...
Page 60 - Both saves the entries from both; Merging New Files
59 Merging All Linked Files Merging All Linked Files in their other fields. When the Dupli-cate Record dialog box appears youmust choose one of these options: • Use...from Sidekick saves the en- try from the PC Sidekick file anddiscards the entry from theBOOKMAN Sidekick file. • Use...from BOOKMAN s...
Page 61 - Caution; : Before you transfer files; Advanced Transfer; Advanced Transfers; Advanced Transfers and Merging
60 Once you have linked files, you cantransfer or merge individual linked filesbetween the computer and yourBOOKMAN Sidekick using the Ad-vanced Transfer button. Transferring, like merging, sends en-tries between your BOOKMAN Side-kick and the computer. But unlikemerging, transferring copies all the...
Page 63 - Recovering Files; Recovery files contain informa-; transfer the same file back to
62 Recovering Files Every time you transfer a file from yourBOOKMAN Sidekick to your computer, aswell as every time that you merge a pair oflinked files, a recovery file is created onyour computer. Recovery files contain allthe information from the PC Sidekick filethat was overwritten when you merge...
Page 64 - If you open the backup file; To Back up Your Files; Backup; To Restore Your Files; When you restore your; Backing up
63 Backing up and Restoring Files Even if you do not have PC Sidekick,you can back up all the information onyour BOOKMAN Sidekick into one fileon your computer. This file can be re-stored later for use on your BOOK-MAN Sidekick. Warning: If you open the backup file as a text file on your computer, y...
Page 65 - I clicked; Test; to discover which; Solutions to Common; Solutions to Common Problems
64 I clicked Test to discover which communications port is beingused, and the screen says thatBOOKMAN Sidekick is notfound on my system. Do the following: • Make sure that you are using the Franklin BOOKMAN PC-connectserial cable. No other cable willwork with your BOOKMAN Side-kick. • Make sure the ...
Page 66 - Unable to receive
65 Solutions to Common Problems Solutions to Common Problems A Data Error dialog box ap-pears, saying Unable to receive data from the BOOKMAN . The Data Error dialog box appearswhen you are linking files, mergingall your files, or using the AdvancedTransfer option. Do one of thefollowing: • Click OK...
Page 67 - BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity
Copy and use restrictions for BOOKMAN SidekickConnectivity software Although you are encouraged to make a backup copy of the Soft-ware for your own use, you are not allowed to make unlimited cop-ies. The Software is protected by the copyright laws that pertain tocomputer software. It is illegal to m...
Page 68 - Doing a Factory Reset; Doing a factory reset per-; Use a paperclip to; gently; Resetting Your BOOKMAN
Doing a Factory Reset Warning: Doing a factory reset per- manently erases all the records savedin your BOOKMAN Sidekick. Unlessyou want to erase all your information,do not perform a factory reset. In addition, when you do a factory re-set, any settings that you havechanged, such as the screen contr...
Page 69 - Copyrights and Patents; Complies with the lim-; Specifications
68 Copyrights and Patents © 1996 Franklin Electronic Publishers,Inc., Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 U.S.All rights reserved.© 1995 Starfish Software. All rightsreserved.Sidekick is a registered trademark ofStarfish Software. FCC Notice: Complies with the lim- its for a Class B computing device pur-suant...
Page 70 - Limited Warranty
69 Limited Warranty (U.S. only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free from defects in materials andworkmanship 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,...
Page 71 - Index; Connectivity software 52
70 Index ?* key 31, 38Accenting letters 12, 26Adding cards to cardfiles 30notes to note folders 37 Advanced Transfer 60, 61Alarms appointments 21daily 17, 18 Appointments 21, 23-25, 27Arrows flashing 11keys 4 Auto-resume feature 14Automatic shutoff time described 10with BOOKMAN Sidekick Connectivity...
Page 74 - setting
73 Index amount 43computing sums 45creating 43deleting 45merging and transferring to a PC 43payment type 43, 45undeleting 45 Expenses menu 43, 45Factory Reset 67Files advanced transfer and merging 60backing up and restoring 63linking 54-56merging 59-61merging all linked files 57-59recovering (PC Sid...
