Increment time fields

Not all of my appointments start on the hour, in fact most of them seem to start at odd times, so I have to adjust the start and end times in some way. An easy way to do this is by using the plus (+) and minus (----) keys. Let's use a simple example. Say I have a dentist appointment at 12:45 pm. There are a number of ways to enter this start time, for one I can type 12:45pm in the start time field, but I always seem to make a mistake doing it this way and end up having to enter it one more time at least.

Another way is to go to the 1:00pm time slot in the Appointment Book and start typing Dentist. The appointment book will start a new appointment for you and you will be typing in the Description field. Press (ENTER) and the Appointment Book will go to the Start Time which has 1:00pm in it. If I press the minus (---) key, the time will decrease by 15 minutes and I will have the correct starting time for the dentist appointment. If I want to increment the time by one minute increments, I use the (SHIFT) and the plus (+) or minus (--) keys. This works on any Palmtop DataBase file that has a time field in it.

Tom Gibson

Technical Editor,

The HP Palmtop Paper

Internet Email: tom_gibson@thaddeus.com