Psion 3a Series - Defaults for New Entries

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Merging Agenda files
You can merge in the entries and/or preference settings from another Agenda file. You
might wish to do this if you have two separate Agenda files, perhaps for work
appointments and domestic entries, and have decided instead to merge them into one
file.
Alternatively, you might wish to merge just the preference settings from an existing
Agenda file into a new file so that it looks the same and works in the same way as your
original one - or if someone else has a layout you want to use for your own Agenda.
1. If any of the files you want to merge in are open, exit them. (If you do not, you will
see a 'File or device in use' message later, and the merge will fail.)
2. Open the Agenda file into which you want to merge the entries and/or preferences.
3. Select the 'Merge in' option on the "File" menu, and on the 'Merge in' line select
whether you want to merge the entries, preferences or both.
4. Select the name of the file whose entries you want to merge in. and press Enter.
If you choose to merge preferences a confirmation dialog will appear. Press Y if you
are sure you want to overwrite them.
C5Y If you want to combine one list into another, tidy the list to a file (using the 'Copy to
file and delete entries' setting), open the file and rename this to-do list to have
exactly the same name as the list where you wanted the entries. Then open your
main Agenda file again, and Merge in the tidied file.
Defaults for new entries
The default settings are the settings suggested in entry details dialogs. If you find you
regularly have to make the same changes in entry details dialogs, you can change the
default settings to make the Agenda more suited to the entries you want.
Select the 'Set preferences' option on the 'Special' menu. In the submenu it displays,
the 'Day entry defaults', 'Anniversary defaults' and 'To-do entry defaults' suboplions
control the default values suggested when you enter a new entry of each type. These
suboptions also let you set the default style for each type of entry, and the default year
symbol (should you choose to give an entry a year symbol).
Notes on day entry defaults
'Day entries limed by default' is a very important setting. If you are repeatedly
selling 'Timed' to 'No' when entering day entries, set this to 'No' instead.
'Default position for untimed entries' controls where untimed entries should be
positioned if you enter them while not in the Day view. 'Default position for timed
entries' does the same for timed entries, if you enter them using Psion-Enter to avoid
the 'Day entry details' dialog.
Defaults for anniversaries
If you don't like the positioning of anniversaries on the Day/Week/List views, set
'Default position for anniversaries' to a different lime slot. (If you don't want them at
all. you should use the 'Day view' (or 'Week view" or 'List view') suboptions of 'Set
preferences', and set the 'Allowed lypes' line to exclude anniversaries.)
You can also set whether anniversaries should have a year symbol on by default.
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