Applies to: Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC

Though it’s best to keep your Windows Mobile device close by, there are times you may set it down and walk away. Find out how to improve your device security with the help on this page.

Passwords

	Assign a PIN
	You can help protect your phone from unauthorized use by assigning a type of password called a PIN (personal identification number). Your wireless service provider will give you your first PIN.

	Tip
	Emergency calls can be placed at any time, without requiring a PIN.

	Help protect your device with a password
	You can help keep your data more secure by requiring a password every time the device is turned on.

Important notes

Each time a wrong password is entered, the time the device takes to respond will get longer and longer until the device appears to be not responding.

If you forget your password, you must follow the instructions in your owner’s manual to clear memory before you can access your device.

	Change your password

Certificates

Overview

Your device may include a set of preinstalled certificates. Certificates are digital documents that are commonly used for authentication and exchange of information on networks. Certificates can be issued for a user, a device, or a service.

Personal certificates help establish your identity when you log on to a secured network, such as a corporate network. Root certificates help establish the identity of other computers, such as servers, with which you connect. This helps prevent unauthorized users from accessing your device and information.

	View certificate details

	Delete a certificate

Applies to: Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC

Contacts is your address book and information storage for the people and businesses you communicate with. Store phone numbers, e-mail addresses, home addresses, and any other information that relates to a contact, such as a birthday or an anniversary date. You can also add a picture or assign a ringtone to a contact.

From the contact list, you can quickly communicate with people. Tap a contact in the list for a summary of contact information. From there, you can call or send a message.

Want to find a contact quickly? There are several ways to organize your contacts. View contacts by name or grouped by company. Or, assign one or more categories to contacts, so you can quickly filter them.

If you use Outlook on your PC, you can synchronize contacts between your device and PC.

Manage Contacts

	Create a contact

	Note
	If your contact list has been filtered by a category when you create a contact, that category is automatically assigned to the new contact.

Tips

If someone who isn’t in your list of contacts calls you or sends you a message, you can create a contact from Call History, or from the message by tapping Menu > Save to Contacts.

To include a nickname, title, and more, while creating a contact, tap the Name arrow. For an existing contact in the contact list, tap the contact, tap Menu > Edit, and tap the Name arrow.

If most of the contacts you create have phone numbers that begin with the same area code, in the contact list, tap Menu > Options and enter that area code in the Area code box.

	Edit a contact

	Tip
	To include a nickname, title, or other information for an existing contact, tap the contact, tap Menu > Edit, then tap the Name arrow.

	Find a contact
	There are several ways to find a contact when your contact list is long.

	Note
	To search for a contact by entering a name or number, or by using the alphabetical index, you must be in Name view. To switch to Name view, tap Menu > View By > Name.

Tips

You can locate your contacts by the name of the company they work for. In the contact list, tap Menu > View By, and tap Company. Tap the company to see the contacts who work there.

When working in Company view, you can filter by categories you’ve assigned to contacts. Then, only the companies with contacts that have that category assigned to them will appear in the list.

	Send a message to a contact

	Tip
	To quickly add a contact’s address to a new message, tap the To, Cc, or Bcc line, and tap Menu > Add Recipient. Tap the contact you want to send the message to and choose the address if necessary.

	Add a picture to contact information

	Remove a picture from contact information

	Create a contact from an existing one
	If you want to create multiple contacts that have similar contact information, you can save time by creating one contact and then copying it.

	Note
	The displayed category is automatically assigned to the new contact.

Applies to: Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PCs offers mobile versions of familar Microsoft Office applications. Office Mobile extends your ability to remain productive while out of the office.

Use Office Mobile

Create a folder

	Delete a folder
	In the Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, and Notes programs, you may want to delete a folder that you no longer use.

Rename a folder

Move a file or note

	Note
	In the file or note list, the storage card symbol is displayed next to the names of files saved on a storage card.

	Create a file
	In the Word Mobile and Excel Mobile programs, you can easily create documents and workbooks.

	Note
	When you save a new file, by default, a document is named after the first several words in the file while a workbook is named Book1, Book2, and so on. To name the file with a meaningful name, tap Menu > File > Rename/Move and enter the name you want.

Rename a file

Locate a file

	Note
	If you don’t see the file you want in the program file list, you may need to open File Explorer and navigate to the appropriate folder or use Search to locate the file.

	Tips
	To show all items in the file list, tap All Folders. You can also find a note by searching for a word located in a note.

Create a template

	Tip
	You can also create a new template by copying an existing one to the Templates folder.

Find or replace text or data

Word and Excel select the first instance of the text in the document and display buttons that allow you to find the next instance or replace the text, as desired.

	Tip
	To limit your search to specific cells in Excel, select the cells before tapping Menu > Edit > Find/Replace.

Automatically save files on a storage card

	Note
	In the file or note list, the storage card is displayed next to the names of files saved on a storage card.

	Create a document or workbook by using a template
	Templates help you save time and ensure consistency by allowing you to focus on the content rather than the format of an item.

Save a copy of a document or workbook

Important note

If the Word document or Excel workbook was previously saved on a PC, data and unsupported formatting may be lost when you save the file.

To quickly create a copy of a document or workbook, open Word or Excel. In the file list, tap and hold the file you want to copy, and tap Create Copy.

	Tips
	To cancel all unsaved changes you made to the document or workbook, tap Menu > File > Revert to Saved instead of Save As.

	Set the default template
	When you create a file or note in the Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and Notes programs, the Blank [file type] template is used by default. If there is another template you use frequently, you may want to set that template as the default.

	Note
	If you created your own template, it must be located in the Templates folder and in your device’s main memory to be available for selection as a default template.

View files by type in the file list

	Zoom in or out
	In the Word Mobile and Excel Mobile programs, you can zoom in to take a closer look at a smaller area of your document or zoom out to see more of the document at a lower magnification.

	Open a file
	There are several ways to open an item such as a Word Mobile document, an Excel Mobile workbook, a picture, a note, or a PowerPoint Mobile presentation.

Notes

If the Word document or Excel workbook was previously saved on a PC, data and unsupported formatting may be lost when you save the file.

You can have only one document, workbook, or note open at a time. When you open a second item of the same type, the first one is saved and closed automatically.

Applies to: Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC

With PowerPoint Mobile, you can open and view slide show presentations created on your PC. Whether the presentation is opened from an e-mail message, downloaded from a file share or the Internet, copied to the device via a storage card, or obtained by synchronizing with your PC, slide shows created in *.ppt and *.pps format with PowerPoint ‘97 and later can be viewed on your device.

Many presentation elements built into the slide shows, such as slide transitions and animations, will play back on the device. If the presentation is set up as a timed slide show, one slide automatically advances to the next. Links to URLs are also supported.

The following PowerPoint features are not supported:

Work with slideshows

	Start a slide show presentation

	Stop a slide show presentation

	Change the slide show orientation
	You can view a PowerPoint Mobile presentation in portrait and in right-handed or left-handed landscape orientations.

	Tip
	Tap Default to view the presentation in the orientation that best fits the size and shape of the device screen.

	Set slide show playback options
	You can override some of the playback options stored in a PowerPoint presentation.

	Tip
	To turn the presentation into a continuously looping slide show, select both the Use timings, if present and the Loop continuously check boxes.

	Navigate between slides
	If a presentation is set up as a timed slide show, one slide will advance to the next automatically. However, if the presentation is not timed or you simply want to go to another slide out of sequence, you can do that easily in a PowerPoint Mobile presentation.

Notes

If you have zoomed in to see a slide in more detail, you cannot navigate to another slide until you zoom out.

Tapping Next or Previous may play an animation on a slide rather than navigate to another slide.

	Tip
	Simply tap the current slide to go to the next one.

	Zoom in and out in a slide
	Zoom in to see a portion of a slide in more detail and zoom out to see the entire slide again.

	Note
	If the presentation is set up as a timed slide show, the presentation will pause during zooming.

	Tip
	To view content that is not visible on the device screen during zooming, simply tap the slide and drag it up, down, or to either side until the content is visible.

Applies to: Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC

You can create and edit documents and templates in Word Mobile and save them as .doc, .rtf, .txt, and .dot files. You can edit Word documents and templates created on your PC. You can also open and edit Pocket Word (*.psw) documents; however, if you edit a file, you need to save it as a .doc, .rtf, .txt, or .dot file.

When you close a newly created document, it is automatically named after the first several words in the document and placed in the Word Mobile document list. You can easily rename the document with a more meaningful name and move it to another folder or a storage card.

	Work with text
	To work with text in your Word Mobile documents, use the following procedures.

	Format text in a document

	Create a list in a document

Tips

You can also use the Formatting toolbar to add bullets or numbers to text. To show the toolbar, tap View > Toolbar. A check mark appears next to Toolbar when the toolbar is visible.

You can also use the Formatting toolbar to increase or decrease the indentation in lists.

	Align text in a document
	You can center text, or align it to the right or left.

Tip

You can also use the Formatting toolbar to align text. To show the toolbar, tap View > Toolbar. A check mark appears next to Toolbar when the toolbar is visible.

	Indent paragraphs in a document

Tip

To indent text in lists, you must use the Formatting toolbar. To show the toolbar, tap View > Toolbar. A check mark appears next to Toolbar when the toolbar is visible.

	Move or copy text in a document
	In Word Mobile, you can easily move, copy, and paste text within a document and between documents.

Note

Word Mobile does not support moving or copying pictures.

Tip

To select all text in a document, tap Menu > Edit > Select All.

	Check spelling in a document

Tips

To check the spelling of specific text, select it, tap and hold, and tap Spelling.

To add a new word to the spelling dictionary, simply tap Add in the menu containing the list of suggested words.

Passwords and Certificates

Passwords

Assign a PIN

Tip

Help protect your device with a password

Important notes

Change your password

Certificates

Overview

View certificate details

Delete a certificate

Manage Contacts

Manage Contacts

Create a contact

Note

Tips

Edit a contact

Tip

Find a contact

Note

Tips

Send a message to a contact

Tip

Add a picture to contact information

Remove a picture from contact information

Create a contact from an existing one

Note

Office Mobile

Use Office Mobile

Create a folder

Delete a folder

Rename a folder

Move a file or note

Note

Create a file

Note

Rename a file

Locate a file

Note

Tips

Create a template

Tip

Find or replace text or data

Tip

Automatically save files on a storage card

Note

Create a document or workbook by using a template

Save a copy of a document or workbook

Important note

Tips

Set the default template

Note

View files by type in the file list

Zoom in or out

Open a file

Notes

Use PowerPoint Mobile

Work with slideshows

Start a slide show presentation

Stop a slide show presentation

Change the slide show orientation

Tip

Set slide show playback options

Tip

Navigate between slides

Notes

Tip

Zoom in and out in a slide

Note

Tip

Word Mobile

Work with text

Format text in a document

Create a list in a document

Align text in a document

Indent paragraphs in a document

Move or copy text in a document

Check spelling in a document

Search

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