hh2 users manual.pdf

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Minimum System Requirements

ñ Windows 2000/XP/Vista Operating Systemñ Pentium® II 400 MHz CPUñ 128 MB R∞ªñ 32 MB RAM graphics cardñ QuickTime Player 6 or laterñ CD-ROM driveñ 16-bit sound card

ñ Mac OS Xñ G4 @ 200 MHz CPUñ 256 MB RAMñ 32 MB RAM graphics cardñ CD-ROM driveñ 16-bit sound card


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Table of Contents

1. What is an Interactive Whiteboard? ........................................................................ p. 3

2. What equipment do I need to use the IWB software? ....................................... p. 33. Running the application ....................................................................................... p. 4

On an IBM compatible PC ...................................................................................... p. 4

On a Mac OS ......................................................................................................... p. 4

4. Navigation ............................................................................................................ p. 5

Menus and Submenus ............................................................................................ p. 5

Navigation controls ................................................................................................ p. 6

At the top of the screen ......................................................................................... p. 6

At the bottom of the screen (over the toolbar) .......................................................... p. 7

Within the screen ................................................................................................. p. 8

Video controls ..................................................................................................... p. 9

Audio controls ..................................................................................................... p. 9

5. Features ................................................................................................................ p. 10Meet the Characters .............................................................................................. p. 10

Units ...................................................................................................................... p. 10

Words ................................................................................................................ p. 11

Songs ................................................................................................................ p. 12

Story .................................................................................................................. p. 12

Activities ............................................................................................................ p. 13

Across the Curriculum .......................................................................................... p. 16

Extras ..................................................................................................................... p. 17

6. The toolbar ........................................................................................................... p. 18

7. The toolbar at a glance ........................................................................................ p. 18

8. Using the tools ..................................................................................................... p. 19PC Mode ................................................................................................................ p. 19

Pencil ..................................................................................................................... p. 19

Highlighter ............................................................................................................. p. 19

Create Text Box ...................................................................................................... p. 19

Select Pencil/Highlighter Thickness ......................................................................... p. 20

Select Pencil/Highlighter Colour ............................................................................. p. 20

Zoom ..................................................................................................................... p. 20

Eraser and Eraser Thickness .................................................................................... p. 21

Hide Part of the Screen .......................................................................................... p. 21

Isolate Part of the Screen ....................................................................................... p. 22

Page Controls ........................................................................................................ p. 22

Print ....................................................................................................................... p. 22Clear Notes ............................................................................................................ p. 22

Undo/Redo ............................................................................................................. p. 22

Save and Load Notes .............................................................................................. p. 22

Saving Notes ....................................................................................................... p. 23

Loading Notes ..................................................................................................... p. 24

9. Using Note Exporter on an IBM compatible PC ....................................................... p. 25

Exporting notes ...................................................................................................... p. 26

Importing notes ..................................................................................................... p. 27

10. Using Note Exporter on a Mac OS .......................................................................... p. 29

Exporting notes ...................................................................................................... p. 30

Importing notes ..................................................................................................... p. 31

11. Troubleshooting .................................................................................................... p. 33

12. Contact support ................................................................................................... p. 33


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An Interactive Whiteboard is a type of touch-sensitive whiteboard, which has the power totransform any classroom into a dynamic learning environment.

It allows teachers and students to participate interactively in activities projected onto the board

from a data projector which is connected to a computer.

Interactive whiteboards are widely used in schools as they are much more lively and interesting

than conventional teaching. They provide ways to show students anything which can be

presented on a computer (educational software, videos, websites etc). Research has shown that

teaching through interactive whiteboard software has numerous advantages:

ñ It can accommodate different learning styles.

ñ It is suitable for both small and large groups of students.

ñ It helps increase students’ attention span.

ñ It assists the assimilation of new information.

ñ It dramatically increases real teaching time.

ñ It reduces the time teachers need for preparation.

ñ It eliminates the need for additional equipment (DVD player, CD player etc).

All in all, it is a powerful teaching tool that will transform your lessons and your classroom!

ñ A computer (IBM compatible or Mac OS)ñ A projector

ñ An interactive whiteboard or a device that turns a plain whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard

ñ Speakers

Welcome to Happy Hearts Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Software. This

application is designed to follow the Happy Hearts course and enhance your

own and your learners’ experience in the language classroom. This User’s

Manual applies to all three levels of the series – Starter, 1 and 2 – as they all

share the same structure and task types.

What is an Interactive Whiteboard?

What equipment do I need to use the IWB software?


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If you click it, the contents of the disk will appear in a browser window with the following icons

and file names (see Fig 4).

Running the application

On an IBM compatible PC

On a Mac OS

Fig 1

Fig 4: Example from Happy Hearts Starter

Click the application name icon, e.g. , to run the application.`

The application should run automatically when you insert the disk into your drive. If it does not,

please follow these steps:

1. Go to START>MY COMPUTER.

2. Locate the icon of your CD/DVD drive. With the Happy Hearts Interactive Whiteboard disk inside

your drive, right-click the icon of your drive and choose EXPLORE.

3. In the new window that appears, double-click on the executable file name (HappyHeartsS.exe,

HappyHearts1.exe or HappyHearts2.exe).

When you insert the disk into the slot, an icon will appear on your desktop with the name of the disk

(see Fig 1-3: HappyHeartsS, HappyHearts1, HappyHearts2).

Fig 2 Fig 3


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Navigation controls


Fig 10: Happy Hearts Starter Unit 1 menu

Click the Unit 1 link to enter it and access

its own menu (see Fig 10). All links lead to

similar submenus in the same way.

Fig 9: Happy Hearts Starter Units menu

Fig 11: Example exit screen from Happy Hearts Starter

Every link in the MAIN MENU leads to

submenus that operate in the same way.

For example, if you wish to enter Unit 1 of

Happy Hearts Starter , click the link UNITS

(see Fig 6). The UNITS MENU will appear

(see Fig 9), showing the links to each unit

in the course.

Click this to EXIT the

application. A pop-up window

will appear asking for

verification before the

application shuts down

completely (see Fig 11).

Throughout the application, the following controls/buttons have their own distinct function in whichever

screen they appear.

At the top of the screen


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Click this to GO TO THE MAIN MENU at any point. This button is always placed on the

bottom left-hand corner of the screen (see Fig 10).

Click this to GO TO THE PREVIOUS MENU at any point.

Click this to GO TO THE PREVIOUS TASK. If you are in the first task of the section,

this button will be grey (inactive).

Click this to GO TO THE NEXT TASK. If you are in the last task of the section, this

button will be grey (inactive).

Click this to REDO a task.

Click this to SHOW THE TEXT in a task.

Click this to HIDE THE TEXT in a task.

Click this to WATCH THE VIDEO of a song or story.

Click this to EXIT THE VIDEO SCREEN of a song or story.


At the bottom of the screen (over the toolbar)


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Fig 14: Example of Happy Hearts Starter task Fig 15: Example of Happy Hearts Starter task, with

suggested answers revealed


Click this to ACTIVATE THE AUDIO of a single item or prompt in a task (see Fig 24).

Click this to SHOW THE SUGGESTED ANSWERS in a task (see Fig 14-15).

Fig 12: Example of story card with audio from

Happy Hearts Starter

Fig 13: Example of story card with audio from Happy

Hearts Starter , with tapescripts revealed

Click this to SHOW THE TAPESCRIPTS of an audio recording in a story (see Fig 12-13).

Within the screen


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Go to theBEGINNING/ENDof the recording.

A SEEK BAR that operates in thesame way as in the Video section.

A VOLUME control thatoperates in the same way asin the Video section.

Every story in the series is also accompanied by the audio of each story card. The audio player and its

controls are illustrated in Fig 17-18.

Fig 17: Example story card screen with audio player

from Happy Hearts 2

Audio controls

Fig 16: Example video screen from

Happy Hearts Starter PAUSE

Click to MUTE theaudio of the video.

Click and drag the seekbar indicator to LOCATEA SPECIFIC POINT in thevideo.

PLAY

STOP

Click to (DE)ACTIVATE THE SUBTITLES.

Click and drag this indicator to theleft or right to ADJUST THE VOLUMEof the video.

Every song and story in the series is accompanied by an animated video. The video screen controls

are illustrated in Fig 16.

Video controls

PLAY/PAUSE

Fig 18: The AUDIO PLAYER

in all levels of the series


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The Happy Hearts IWB Software is designed as a teaching aid for the coursebooks and for this

reason they are identical content-wise. Moreover, it includes course features such as class posters

and animated videos, all organised in individual menus for easy access. Wherever possible,

additional interactive activities have been added so as to provide further practice.

The execution of the task types used in the course is naturally slightly different when using an

interactive whiteboard. For instance, whereas you can still use the PENCIL tool (see PENCIL section

on p. 19) to write your notes or answers in a task, you may also complete them by either clicking

or dragging and dropping.

Below is a short presentation of the task types used in each section.

Features

Fig 19: Example from Happy Hearts 1 Fig 20: Example from Happy Hearts 1

The main characters of each level in the series are introduced one by one in this section. Click a

character to activate a pop-up window, in which each character is introduced with a short

animation and audio excerpt (see Fig 19). Click within the pop-up window again to close it and

return to the previous screen (see Fig 20).

Meet the Characters

Fig 21: Example unit menu from Happy Hearts Starter

As in the coursebook, there is a starter unit

and another six units in the Happy Hearts

IWB software. Each main unit is divided into

five sections: Words, Songs, Story , Activities and

Across the Curriculum (see Fig 21). Click the link

of your choice to enter the corresponding

section.

Units


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From the WORDS MENU, you can access the

quick presentation of the vocabulary taught in

each unit (see Fig 22). Each flashcard is

presented on screen along with the audio of

each word or phrase it depicts.

Fig 22: Example from Happy Hearts 2

Words

The second link in the Words menu takes you to the vocabulary activity (see Fig 23). Click a THUMBNAIL

icon to make its larger picture appear in the centre of the screen (see Fig 24). Click the HEADPHONES

icon to activate its audio. To activate the written form of each item, click the SHOW TEXT button in

the bottom right-hand corner (see Fig 24).



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Once in the SONGS MENU (see Fig 25), click the song of your choice to enter its video screen (see

Fig 26). Use the video controls to play/pause/mute/(de)activate subtitles, while playing the animated

video (see Fig 16).


Songs

The STORY MENU shows the set of story card thumbnails in each story (see Fig 27 ). Click a thumbnailto enter the STORY CARD MENU (see Fig 28). Use the audio controls to play/pause/adjust the volume

of the audio, while playing the audio of each story card (see Fig 18). Click the TAPESCRIPTS button

to reveal the text of each story card (see Fig 29) and the WATCH VIDEO button to activate the video

screen of the story (see Fig 30).


Story


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Activities

From the ACTIVITIES MENU you can access

five activities selected mainly from the Pupil’s

Book and the Activity Book (see Fig 31).

Wherever possible, interactive activities

especially designed for the IWB software have

been added. Activity types vary throughoutthe software, but all can be completed either

by clicking, dragging and dropping, or using

the PENCIL ( ) and HIGHLIGHTER ( ) tools

(see Toolbar section, p. 19) from the toolbar to

directly write your own notes, draw lines,

colour in etc. For example:


In circling tasks, you can use the PENCIL

tool to circle the correct item on screen.

Alternatively, you can click the item of your

chosen answer to activate the suggested

answer (see Fig 32). A correct answer will

reveal a blue circle around the object,

whereas a wrong answer will activate a

sound effect.



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In more complicated illustrations, such as the example in Fig 34, you can additionally use the

ZOOM ( ) tool to magnify a particular area and then use the PENCIL or HIGHLIGHTER to colour

it (see Fig 35).


Colouring activities can be carried out in

two different ways as depicted in Fig 33.

One way is to click the crayon of your

choice on the side of the black and white

illustration to select a colour. Then click an

area to fill it with that colour (in this

example, Fifi’s head). Alternatively, you can

use the PENCIL or HIGHLIGHTER tools.

Select a colour from the toolbar and

manually fill in an area with that particular

colour (see the heart on Fifi’s tummy).Fig 33: Example from Happy Hearts 1


Tracing activities can be carried out using the PENCIL tool (see Fig 36). If you wish to enlarge the

letter/word/number/illustration to be traced, you can use the ZOOM tool (see Fig 37 ).


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The PENCIL can also be used in line drawing

tasks, such as the one in Fig 38. However, in

these tasks there is also an AUTO KEY

button. Clicking it will reveal the suggested

answers.


Matching activities require the dragging and

dropping of an item onto a certain place. For

instance, in Fig 39 you drag and drop a jigsaw

puzzle piece to complete a picture.


In Fig 40, you drag and drop a round excerpt

from the story cards of Unit 2 in Happy Hearts

Starter (which in the Pupil’s Book will be a

sticker) to complete the story card illustrations.



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Upon entering this section, you click the

respective link to either enter the POSTER screen

(see Fig 43) or the ACTIVITY screen (see Fig 44). Inthe poster screen, click an item to activate its

audio and click on the SHOW TEXT button to

reveal the hidden text (see Fig 45).

The task types used in this section are the same

as in the rest of the units.


Across the Curriculum



In Fig 41 you drag and drop a character onto its silhouette in a larger picture, whereas in Fig 42, you

drag and drop a word to match it with a picture.


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Fig 47: Example from Happy Hearts 1Fig 46: Example from Happy Hearts 1

Extras

Upon entering the EXTRAS SUBMENU (see Fig 46), click any of the links to go to the equivalent

optional unit (see Fig 47 ). The units include songs (see Fig 48), colouring tasks, matching tasks and

the same task types as in the rest of the coursebook (see Fig 49).

Fig 49: Example from Happy Hearts 1Fig 48: Example from Happy Hearts 1


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If for any reason you wish to hide the toolbar during your lesson, you can do so by

clicking this arrow on the left-hand side. To make it reappear, you can click the arrow on the right.

Clear notes

Load notes

Fig 52: The toolbar

The toolbar at a glance

PC mode

Pencil

Select pencil / highlighterthickness

Select pencil / highlighter

colour

Eraser anderaser

thickness

Zoom

Hide part of the screen

Isolate partof thescreen

Notes pagecontrols

Print

Undo

Redo

Save notes

These little green triangles indicate that thereare further options available for this tool.

Createtext box

Fig 50: Example from Happy Hearts Starter Fig 51: Example from Happy Hearts Starter

Highlighter


At the bottom of every screen, you will find the Toolbar.

The toolbar


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CREATE TEXT BOX: If you don’t want to use the pointer/electronic pen of your interactive

whiteboard, this is a useful alternative for making notes. Click and drag to create a text

box and type in your notes (see Fig 55).

HIGHLIGHTER: Click and drag on

every word, phrase or sentence youwish to highlight in a text (see Fig 54).

Again, you have the option of

selecting the colour and thickness of

your highlighter first. The highlighter

may also be used in colouring tasks.

PC MODE: After you have used one

of the tools, click this to regain your

normal mouse pointer function. This

way you can once again click and click

and drag.

PENCIL: Click to turn your mouse

pointer into a pencil. Now you can

make your own notes on every screen

provided in this software – a veryuseful tool if you want to write

students’ own answers during

prediction warm-up or error correction

(see Fig 53). Make sure you select a

colour and thickness for your pencil

before you actually write anything (see

SELECT PENCIL/HIGHLIGHTER THICKNESS

and COLOUR sections).

Using the tools




This is a sample text box:

Drag the greybar to MOVEthe text box.

This is the TEXTBOX FORMATTING

PANEL.

Click and drag thearrows to RESIZE

the text box.


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SELECT PENCIL/HIGHLIGHTER THICKNESS: Once

you have clicked this tool, another options panel

appears (see Fig 57 ). Click any of the brush

strokes to select the thickness of your pencil or

highlighter.

SELECT PENCIL/HIGHLIGHTER COLOUR: Click to reveal the colour options panel and select

a colour for your pencil/highlighter (see Fig 58). This is a very useful tool if you like to use

colour-coding while teaching.

Fig 58: The colour options panel

Fig 59: The zoom options panel

Click this to exitthe zoom mode.

Click and drag thisdiagonally over the

part of the screen youwant to zoom into.

Fig 57: The thickness options panel

Once you have created a textbox, a formatting panel appears so you can customise your

text (see Fig 56).

Fig 56: The text box formatting panel

This indicator showsthat these colours areapplicable to the text.

Click a colour for your text.Click a colour foryour background.

This indicator shows thatthese colours are applicable

to the background.

Click to make your backgroundtransparent so you can see your notes

superimposed on the screen.

Decrease fontsize by 1 pt

with each click.

Increase fontsize by 1 pt

with each click.

Click to makeyour text bold.

Click toitalicise

your text.

Click tobulletyourtext.

Click to underlineyour text.

ZOOM: Once you have clicked this tool, another options panel appears (see Fig 59).



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ERASER and ERASER THICKNESS: When you click

this tool, another options panel appears so you can

select the thickness of your eraser (see Fig 61). Click

the circle of your choice to select the thickness of

your eraser and your pointer turns into an eraser.

Drag it over the area you wish to erase. If you wantto erase a text box, simply click it once and the entire

text box will be deleted.

HIDE PART OF THE SCREEN: When you click and drag over a selected area with this tool,

you can hide areas such as individual illustrations, paragraphs, words, phrases etc (see

Fig 62). This will give you the opportunity to explore tasks and texts further.

Fig 61: The eraser thickness panel

For example, Fig 60 shows a zoomed in area of a screen.

In the bottom right corner, there are fourarrows pointing to the top, bottom, left

and right. By clicking them individuallyyou can navigate the screen.


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PAGE CONTROLS: Clicking this tool will

reveal another options panel so you can

organise your notes in different layers (see

Fig 64). Each layer works as a blank page

you can write your notes on. This page

can be either transparent and visible over

the task screen, or opaque and function

like a conventional whiteboard. The

difference is that now you can prepare

your notes before your lesson, or save

them after the lesson so as to use them

again in the future with the same class or

a different class of the same level.

PRINT: Click this to print the screen you are working on, as it is – with notes. Please note

that the preferred printing mode for this feature is landscape.

CLEAR NOTES: Click this to erase all your notes on a particular screen.

UNDO / REDO: Click to undo or redo any action you have just done.

SAVE and LOAD NOTES: These two tools are especially useful if you want to use

the same notes with another class on a different day. Please note that the Happy

Hearts IWB notes and annotations can be accessed only through this software;

therefore, they will be saved in a file created by the software and identified by the

software alone.

Currentpage.

Click togo to theprevious

page.

Totalnumber

of pages.

Click togo to

the nextpage.

Click toadd apage.

Click tomake apage

opaque.

Click tomake apage

transparent.

Fig 64: The page options panel

Click todelete apage.

ISOLATE PART OF THE SCREEN: When

you click and drag over an area of the

screen with this tool, the section you

have selected will be visible and

therefore focus students’ attention

directly on it. The rest of the screen

fills up with the colour of your choice

(see Fig 63).




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First you need to make notes, either using

the pencil or the text box tool, as in the

example in Fig 65.

Then click SAVE . A blue window

appears with the options SAVE and CANCEL.

Type a name for your notes in the field that

appears above these two options. It is best to

name your notes according to the unit, thelesson, the exercise and the date you created

them (see Fig 66). For example, you could

name a file HH2_SC1_20April. In this way,

you can locate them easily once you have

accumulated a long list of notes.

It is possible that your system will notify you

that ‘Local’, i.e. this software, is trying to

store a file in your computer (see Fig 67 ). Click

ALLOW.

Now you have successfully saved your notes.

Saving Notes





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Click LOAD NOTES to load a page of

notes you have saved. Another blue window

appears with the options LOAD and CANCEL

(see Fig 68). Click the file name of your notes

and then click LOAD.

Your saved notes will appear in the same

manner as they did when you saved them

(see Fig 69).

Loading Notes



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The saved notes files have now been moved to

the folder that the user specified (see Fig 77 ).

Fig 77

You can rename the file if you wish. However, please DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE PREFIXES OR

THE EXTENSION, as this will make your notes untraceable by the application. The file prefixes foreach level are:

ñ HHS_ for Happy Hearts Starter

ñ HH1_ for Happy Hearts 1

ñ HH2_ for Happy Hearts 2.

You can now store the file(s) you exported on any storage media, or send them by email. When

you want to use these files on another computer, use the IMPORT NOTES function.

To import your exported notes onto another computer that has the same software, run NoteExporter as described in the previous section (see Exporting notes ).

When you see the window shown in Fig 78,

click IMPORT NOTES.

Fig 78

The message in Fig 79 will appear:

Fig 79

Importing notes


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Note Exporter will now start. The new window

that appears will offer you two options (see

Fig 88).

Click EXPORT NOTES if you want to transfer

notes from this computer to another

computer.

Click IMPORT NOTES if you want to transfer

notes to this computer from another

computer.

When you click the disk icon, the contents of

the disk appear in a browser window with the

icons and file names as in the example shown

in Fig 87 .

To run Note Exporter , insert the

disk into your drive. Depending

on the level of the series, one of

the three icons shown in Fig 84-

86 will appear on your desktop.

Fig 87

Fig 88

Click the file to run the application.

Using Note Exporter on a Mac OS

Note Exporter operates in a slightly different manner on a Mac OS.

Fig 84 Fig 85 Fig 86


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When you click EXPORT NOTES the computer

will start searching your hard disk for any

interactive whiteboard notes that may exist

on it. You will see the message in Fig 89.

Fig 89

Exporting notes

A window will appear that asks you to specify

the folder in your system from which you

wish to export your notes (see Fig 91). Select

the drive and the folder from the drop-down

menu and click CHOOSE.

Fig 91

After a few minutes, you will be prompted to

enter the application file identifier (see Fig 90).

This is the file in which the software saves all

your notes. Please type the correct file

identifier in the space provided (see the file

identifiers list on p. 26). Please note that this

file name is case-sensitive, so it is important

that you type it correctly. Now click OK.Fig 90



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After a few minutes, you will be prompted to

enter the application file identifier (see Fig 95).Please type the correct file identifier in the

space provided (see the file identifiers list on

p. 26). Again, please remember that this is a

set file name and that it is case-sensitive.

Then click OK.

The next window will ask you to specify thefolder in which you have saved the exported

notes (see Fig 97 ). Scroll down the menu and

select the folder. Please note that you can

import notes from a CD, DVD, USB stick or

any other portable medium. Click CHOOSE.

The message in Fig 96 will appear. Click OK.

Fig 95

Fig 96

Fig 97

When you have successfully imported the

notes, the window in Fig 98 will appear.

Again, in order to view the imported notes, you may now load them using the LOAD NOTES

function.

Fig 98



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In case you have any queries on the use of Happy Hearts IWB, please contact us [email protected] .

Problem Solution

I insert the CD in my CD drive but

nothing happens.

Your computer’s autorun feature is

possibly disabled. Go to My Computer

and double click the disk icon

(HappyHeartsS, HappyHearts1 or

HappyHearts2). In the new window

that opens, double-click the icon of thefile with the same name as the disk.

I’ve just written some notes and I

want to go back to using the main

application, but it seems that I cannot

click anything.

Make sure you return to PC Mode

using the PC Mode icon.

Note Exporter cannot find my files.

My pages do not print properly. Make sure your printer is set to print

in landscape mode for optimum

results.

Troubleshooting

Contact support

ñ Make sure you have typed the

application file identifier correctly.

The correct file identifiers are:

ñ HappyHeartsS for Happy Hearts

Starter

ñ HappyHearts1 for Happy Hearts 1

ñ HappyHearts2 for Happy Hearts 2.

ñ If the problem persists, avoid using

other applications while running

Note Exporter .


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