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11: Time, Appointments, and Date Arithmetic 147
File name : 17BII-Plus-Manual-E-PRINT-030709 Print data : 2003/7/11
message, press
a
. Type the message (refer to page 30 for using
the ALPHA menu). Messages are limited to a maximum of 22
characters. Press
I
when done. (Press
e
to negate any
changes and retain the original message.)
7. The repeat interval (optional): To set, view, or change a repeat
interval, press
b
. Key in an integer and press the appropriate
key. For example, 2
e
causes the appointment to go off at the
same time every other day; 90
”
sets the repeat interval to 1½
hours.
f
sets the appointment to non- repeating. You can
specify repeat intervals up to 104 weeks in length (728 days, 17,472
hours, etc.)
8. When done, press
e
to return to the APPT menu. The appointment
you just set will be recorded, such as
FH:I#&
You can check an
appointment by pressing its menu key (such as
c
).
C
restores an appointment’s time and date to the display if it has
been overwritten by other operations.
Acknowledging an Appointment
To acknowledge the appointment and clear the message, press any key
(except
@
) during the beeping. Appointments not acknowledged within
20 seconds become past due.
When an appointment “comes due,” the alarm starts beeping and the
alarm annunciator (
) is displayed, even if the calculator was off.
*†
The message (or, if none, the time and date) is displayed.
*
If the calculator is in the middle of a complex calculation when an
appointment comes due, the alarm annunciator comes on and the calculator
beeps once. When the calculation is done, the alarm goes off.
†
The beeping can be suppressed or restricted to appointments. See “Beeper
On and Off,” page 36.