Where’s the ShortCut symbol on the Treo 600?

PalmOne needs to update the documentation for the Handspring Treo 600.

The user guide shipped with the product and found on the Handspring website makes no reference to where the text shortcut symbol is hidden. On a graffiti-based Palm you can make a curly cue – known as the ShortCut symbol – and enter “br” and the word “breakfast” will magically appear. You can set your shortcut preferences adding new words or phrases. That’s very handy in graffiti – perhaps less so on a keyboard-based Treo 600. But since AT&T Office Online doesn’t let me set a “signature block” for the email I send from the Treo – I went in search of the text shortcut. I found the shortcut text entry option under the preferences menu. I just couldn’t find the way you are supposed to trigger it from the keyboard. It’s not in the documentation. It’s not available via a Google search. So I did what any self-respecting geek would do – played around with it til I found it.

The text ShortCut symbol on a Treo 600 can be found by typing an “s” then hitting the “alt 0” key, then scroll down and select the last symbol (why is it the last symbol?) – then enter your text shortcut and, yes it types out the full text.

Guy Bjerke
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From my Treo 600

Snyder

Hi Guy,

Did you ever find any way to make use of shortcuts on the Treo practical? I found a reference at http://tradermike.net/movethecrowd/archives/2004/02/whats_on_my_treo_600.php to some software at http://www.geekandproud.net/software/keycaps600.php which apparently might help, but I really do not want to junk up my Treo with something affecting the keyboard simply to get access to this one symbol. Any thoughts? Thanks, S.
http://www.scottconnor.com Scott C

Thanks to you, now Googling DOES bring up an answer. Much appreciated, and you’re right, the documentation totally missed this. I was worried that because it was called a “shortcut” that I wouldn’t find anything online. Fortunately I did, thanks!
N Joice

Dude! Thanks a million for the ShortCut info! It has been driving me crazy trying to figure this out.
GD

It was over a year and a half since you made this post ….. and it helped me out just now. THANKS!!!!
Mark

Thank-you for the post! Tried to find the info in the Treo documentation (silly me for expecting this) but ended up Google’ing and found your post.

And btw I also agree with you. I seems ludicrous that to get the ‘shortcut’ symbol I need to press SIX BUTTONS! And that is before I even begin typing the shortcut name.