Setting appointment duration

95LX 100/200LX

The HP 95LX and 100LX assume that the appointments you enter in APPT are one hour long. The HP 200LX assumes a half hour appointment. For example, enter an appointment, set the Start time only and press (F10) (Done) and you'll notice that APPT sets the End time for one hour later on the 95/100LX and 33 minutes for the 200LX. (The bracket to the left of the appointment list indicates how long the appointment is.)

On the HP 95LX

The only thing you can do on the 95LX is to manually tab down to the End time field and enter a new ending time.

On the HP 100/200LX

You can also manually enter a new End time on the 100/200LX. But better than that, you can change the default setting for the appointment duration. Go into APPT on the 100/200LX and press (MENU) Options Appointment Defaults. The first box in the Appointment Defaults screen is the Appointment Duration box. Move your cursor to that box and enter the new appointment duration. You can enter it in minutes (15, 30, 90, etc.) or in standard time format (0:30, 0:45, 1:30, etc.). Press (F10) when you're done. So if you set your appointment duration to 30 minutes and enter an appointment's Start time as 4:00 pm, the End time will default to 4:30 pm.

Rich Hall Editor, The HP Palmtop Paper