Psion 3a Series - Rearranging and Grouping Icons

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button will still move to that application, if it is open.
Switching between open applications
You can use Shift and the System button to move from one open application to the next.
In this way you can see all of the applications which are open, one by one.
Psion-Shift-System moves around them in the opposite direction.
Rearranging and grouping icons
There are a number of ways in which you can rearrange icons and file lists on the
System screen to make them more conveniently placed for your particular use.
Duplicating icons - new lists of files
If you create a large number of files in any of the applications, you may find it useful to
separate the files into related groups. You might have created a number of files in the
Word Processor, for example, some of which are letters and some reports. You could
group all the letters together and list them on the System screen under the Word
Processor icon, and create a second Word Processor icon to list all the reports under.
To duplicate the Word Processor icon, for example:
1. Position the highlight beneath the Word Processor icon and select the 'Create new
list' option from the 'Special' menu. This dialog will be displayed:
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2. On the 'Directory for files' line, enter a name of up to 8 letters for the directory where
the new files listed beneath the new icon should be stored. You can create a new
directory if you wish, or specify an existing one.
If you know about directories, note that this directory will be a subdirectory of
\WRD. To use a directory off the root directory, you would type \ in front of the
directory name, for example \ report. There is more information about
directories in the 'Files and Disks' chapter.
3. Leave the 'Icon' line set to 'Default'.
!£§=" You can only use the default icon, which in this case will be the Word Processor
icon, unless you have acquired other icon files from some other source. (You can
make your own using OPL; an example is given in the section on OPL applications -
OPAs - in the 'Advanced topics' section of the Series 3a Programming Manual.) If
you wish to use another icon, you would press Tab on the 'Icon' line and select the
icon you wanted to use.
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