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Customizing Your Home Screen, Shortcuts and Widgets

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Customizing Your Home Screen You can customize your Home screen by doing the following: • Adding shortcuts and widgets • Creating folders • Changing the wallpaper Shortcuts and Widgets You can add, reposition, or remove shortcuts and widgets from the Home screen. • Shortcuts: Icons on the Home screen which launch applications. • Widgets: Self-contained applications. They appear as onscreen applications. Note: Primary shortcuts appear at the bottom of the display screen. You can modify primary shortcuts just like regular shortcuts, except for Apps. Adding a Shortcut or Widget You can customize the Home screen by adding shortcuts and widgets. 1. Touch and hold an empty area of the Home screen. On the pop-up menu, touch Apps and widgets. - or - Tap Apps to display the Apps screen. 2. For shortcuts, touch the Apps tab. For widgets, touch the Widgets tab. 3. Touch and hold the shortcut or widget, and then drag it to a position on the Home screen and release. Removing a Shortcut or Widget Shortcuts and widgets can be removed from the Home screen. Note: Removing a shortcut does not delete the application, it simply removes the shortcut from the Home screen. � Touch and hold the shortcut or widget until it detaches, and then drag it to Remove and release. 26

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Customizing Your Home Screen
You can customize your Home screen by doing the following:
•
Adding shortcuts and widgets
•
Creating folders
•
Changing the wallpaper
Shortcuts and Widgets
You can add, reposition, or remove shortcuts and widgets±
from the Home screen.±
•
Shortcuts
: Icons on the Home screen which launch ±
applications.±
•
Widgets
: Self-contained applications. They appear as ±
onscreen applications.±
Note:
Primary shortcuts appear at the bottom of the display
screen. You can modify primary shortcuts just like
regular shortcuts, except for
Apps
.
Adding a Shortcut or Widget
You can customize the Home screen by adding shortcuts ±
and widgets.±
1.
Touch and hold an empty area of the Home screen.
On the pop-up menu, touch
Apps and widgets
.
– or –
Tap
Apps
to display the Apps screen.
2.
For shortcuts, touch the
Apps
tab. For widgets, touch
the
Widgets
tab.
3.
Touch and hold the shortcut or widget, and then drag it
to a position on the Home screen and release.
Removing a Shortcut or Widget
Shortcuts and widgets can be removed from the ±
Home screen. ±
Note:
Removing a shortcut does not delete the application, it
simply removes the shortcut from the Home screen.
�
Touch and hold the shortcut or widget until it detaches,
and then drag it to
Remove
and release.
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