Using ti-86 menus, Displaying a menu – Texas Instruments TI-86 User Manual

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Chapter 1: Operating the TI

-86

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Using TI-86 Menus

The symbols for many TI

-86 features are found in menus instead of on the TI-86 keyboard.

Displaying a Menu

The way to display a particular menu depends on the menu’s location on the TI

-86.

Menu-Displaying Method

Example

Press a key that has a menu name on it

6 displays the

GRAPH

Press - and then a 2nd-key menu name - Œ displays the

MATH

Select a menu name from another menu

- Œ & displays the

MATH

NUM

Select an editor or selection screen

- ” ) displays the list editor menu with the list editor

Accidentally commit an error

X b displays the error menu

When you display a menu, a menu group of one to five items is displayed on the bottom of the
screen. If the more symbol (

4 ) is displayed after the fifth item in a menu group, the menu

continues for at least one more menu group. To view the next menu group, press /. The
last menu group of one to five items does not have a

4 symbol.

For example, press - Œ

to display

the

MATH

menu.

When you see

here...

...press

to display

the next menu group.

From the last menu group, press

again to return to the first menu group.

Some TI

86 menus have as

many as 25 items.

, and

do not

work on menus.