HP 39GS HP 39gs_40gs_Mastering The Graphing Calculator_English_E_F2224-90010.p - Page 220
Creating a Note, Locking ALPHA mode, Locking
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Creating a Note Let's create a small Note containing some commonly used formulas. Press SHIFT NOTEPAD (not SHIFT NOTE ) and you will see the Notepad Catalog shown right. Yours will probably be empty. The keys at the bottom of the screen allow you to an existing Note, create a one or to and Notes to or from another calculator (or a computer). A Note is deleted using the DEL key, while the SHIFT CLEAR key will delete all Notes in the catalog. Press the key to begin a fresh Note. You will be presented with the screen on the right, requesting that you enter a name for the Note. Names can be any length and can contain any characters, alphabetic, numeric, spaces as well as any from the CHARS menu. However, if the name is longer than 14 characters it will be truncated in the display because of the space taken up by the indication of how much memory is used. When you press ENTER after typing in the name, you will see a blank screen waiting for you to begin typing in your Note. Locking ALPHA mode Before we begin, a word about making your typing easier. The normal method to enter an alphabetical character is to use the ALPHA key. Lowercase letters are obtained by pressing SHIFT first. The ALPHA key can be held down with one hand while you type with the other, but this isn't convenient and lowercase can't be locked this way. Space can be obtained via ALPHA SPACE, with SPACE located above the key. At the bottom of the screen in the Notepad view you will see screen keys labeled , and (backspace). If you press then all the keys from then on will type their alphabetic values rather than their normal mathematical functions. Pressing the SHIFT key first before the key will lock it into lowercase rather than into uppercase. Pressing the key again disengages it. The key is there purely for your convenience since it is also on the keyboard. Use the keys discussed above to type in the screen shown on the right. The arrow keys can be used to move around in the text and insert or delete characters. The and the normal key are used to remove characters. Pressing the key deletes the character at the cursor, whereas removes the character before the cursor. 220