Help: Understanding Views in your Calendar

With Windows Mobile you have choice, which is good, but too many choices become confusing. Hopefully we’ve given you just what you need; let’s take a look.

There are five views for your calendar, they can be changed in two ways.

1. Using the left soft key you can scroll through the views in order: Agenda, Day, Week, Month, Year
2. Tap Menu > View and make your selection.

Tapping Menu > View looks like this
The five views are shown below.
Agenda View
Day View
Week View
Month View
Year View

Have more calendar questions? See these other topics (coming soon)…

• How-to: Schedule a Meeting from Windows Mobile

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How-to: Schedule a Meeting from Windows Mobile

Did you know you can send a meeting request to your friends right from your windows mobile?

Let’s see how easy it is…

1. Open your Calendar
2. Tap Menu > New Appointment
3. Next you need to add the details of your appointment… we’ll cover them one at a time.
4. Enter the key fields for your appointment… Subject Location Starts (Date & Time) End (Date & Time)
5. Tap Attendees to add people to your appointment You need to select Required vs. Optional Attendees…
6. Select the Attendees from your Contacts
7. You can add or adjust a number of other fields (see below). If you want to accept the defaults, Tap Done.
Other Options:
If you want this appointment to repeat, Tap Occurs You can set the the appointment to repeat only: Once On the same day of the week On the same day of each month On the same day each year A custom pattern
You can write detailed notes to your attendees or yourself by Tapping Notes

Have more calendar questions? See these other topics (coming soon)…

• Help: Understanding Views in your Calendar

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Installing and setting up Google Maps on your Windows Mobile Phone

In brief, we need to… get Google Maps, install it on our phone and then learn some cool things we can use it to do! 

Let’s start by getting Google Maps setup on our phone… 

1. Open Internet Explorer from either the Start Menu or your Programs folder
2. Tap Menu > Address Bar
2. Type m.google.com in the address bar and click the arrow or Hit Enter This page (or one like it) will be displayed…
3. Tap Maps on the page NOTE: The page may look a bit different than the one at the right…
4. Tap Yes You want to download the file “GoogleMaps_compress.CAB” You’ll also see the app installing. If presented with an option as to where to install the application, choose Storage Card from the list.
5. Accept the Mobile Terms on Services
6. Click OK Don’t forget later you can use your gmail account to share your location with friends any family….
You’re Installed!

Have more Google Maps questions? See these other topics (coming soon)…

• Use Latitude to share your location with friends and family
• Search, read reviews and get directions to your favorite destinations
• Get Walking or Transit Directions (instead of using your car)

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