Zaurus Operation Guide

First, have a look at the following screen shot and compare it to your own Zaurus' ZPDVIEW screen. There are some variations between models as to where some buttons are located. That's due to the fact that the newer models use portrait layout and color display, the older ones landscape mode and black/white. This picture shows ZPDVIEW 1.5 on the P10.

How do I access my new dictionary?

In case you cannot open the ZPDVIEW screen (shown above) to start with:
I installed the icon in your オリジナルインデックス (Orininal Index) which I set to be the default menue on your machine.
P10: touch the ホーム インデックス button (green oval left of screen, top).
E21: touch the 戻る (modoru) button (left triangular button). If you touch it several times, it goes back to the main index screen which you don't want. In that case, touch the button for a long time to tun off the power, then push it again to turn the Zaurus on again.
Click the ZPDVIEW icon in the top left corner.

I still can't find it!

If the Zaurus is stuck, take out the battery on the back side, put it back in and lock the lid. Start over. Don't worry, you address book and schedule data will not be lost, but you might have to reset time and date.
If your menue is not correctly configured, please read the technical FAQ page.

How do I operate ZPDVIEW?

Important buttons in top bar, left to right:

• top left corner: Close the program and return to previous application
• next to it: Pulldown menue to pick the active dictionary (from file WOBPMENU.TXT)
• CL: Clear search word window
• Search word
• History navigator
• 検索: serach button (press it when you marked a word)
• Aa Capitalize the search word
• 大 toggle display font size (3 sizes available)
• finally, the two page turn buttons and the two buttons to scroll up and down a page

Keyboard buttons:

• On the right of the entry buffer line, the 文字 button pops up the keyboard selection menue. Pick 手書き認識 for handwriting recognition (kanji entry), or タイプライター to enter English. On the left of the typewriter keyboard, the following bottons should be clicked: 半角, 英字, and 小字.
• Of the two rows on the right, don't click the two top buttons. The left row is useless except for the スペース (space) button. On the right, the three lower buttons all serve to move the contents of the entry buffer to the search word line on top, the remakining button, 削除, is the delete button - the one I use most often.
• Handwriting recognition: Write one character per field, no matter whether you input kanji, kana or romaji. If you hesitate briefly in writing, the machine will think the character is complete. If you leave the pen on the screen without moving it, it will notice that you are just thinking.
  (Note: Occasionally I have come across a very rare kanji which the Zaurus could not recognize: The handwriting recognition does NOT cover the entire Shift-JIS character set. In this case, your only choice is to search via pronunciation or meaning, direct kanji input is impossible.)

I cannot find a word in the dictionary!

No dictionary is perfect, but in most cases, you are making a mistake in searching - especially romaji searching is a bit tricky as it is case sensitive.

1. Make sure the 半角 (hankaku) button is checked, i.e. you are entering single-byte characters.
2. Enter everything in small script and search.
3. Search for the capitalized word (use the Aa button. Most (but not all) German dictionaries require nouns to be capitalized.)
4. Scroll down the screen a little bit, using the scroll and page turn buttons at the top right of the screen. (Especially Crown DokuWa is notorious for bringing up the word prior to the word of interest.)

How can I review the vocabulary I looked up?

For your review and study, you can save entries to a text file. Access those functions through the "menue" or "control menue" button (メニュー/操作メニュー). You can load the text files thus generated into the book reader to review your vocabulary and edit the files in a regular text editor. Please see the example on the ZPDVIEW download page. (The "menue" button function is available on the MI-P10 and E-series but not on J1, P2 or older models.)

There is no way to edit the vocabulary text files once you saved them. Use a separate editor program on the Zaurus or on your PC.

Is there a general manual for the Zaurus English?

No. As far as I know these pages are the most you get in English. Your best bet is to try things out: Operation of the Zaurus is rather intuitive, and with the help of Japanese friends you should get to using more and more functions of this PDA step by step.

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Updated Feb. 1, 2003 by Armin Rump