Walt, your point is well taken. In fact. I have had my unit for a week and the "Key describer" function I suggested would not be of much use to me now. I too have set bookmarks in the manual at places I am likely going to forget. In addition, one could always produce a list of the commands one is likely to need and send it to the book port to be used if needed. Neal -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Smith Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:54 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: A Key Describer function I've set several bookmarks in the copy of the manual that's on the BP so=20 that if there's something I need, I can navigate to it quickly. From time to=20 time, the subject of a key help function has come up here (the BookCourier=20 has such a function) and it's been my experience that after a week or two,=20 it very well may not be necessary. The various functions are so rationally=20 defined that I've found them very easy to remember and I've had to refer to=20 the manual for keystroke help extremely rarely after I used the BP for only=20 a few days. I wouldn't object to such a feature unless it were to use up=20 finite memory on the BP, itself, but while I thought at first that I'd really need it, I found out very quickly that everything just became more or=20 less automatic. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Robert Carter" <r-carter@xxxxxxx> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:13 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: A Key Describer function Hi All, I think newcomers may not realize that you can use the navigation commands to very quickly move through the manual and pinpoint exactly what you are looking for. I have done some experimenting and found that I could pick a topic at random and find it within just a few seconds by skimming the=20 manual. Robert Carter At 01:51 PM 3/16/2005, you wrote: >Hi Neal and list: > >I think you recognised the problem such a thing would cause. That's why=20 >every effort is made to see that the manual is always available. Just >press e to open the manual, then 3 plus 6 to navigate to the appendices=20 >where you can find all the functions. > >Cheers, >Dave