anyone of a simulator on line to practice on having trouble with manual entry its the siemens 1.4 doing my head in hate the things 
Go on youtube,thereās a fella called cruddybones does a good video about it.
Iām useless with manual entryās but getting the hang of it after watching his stuff.
Manual entries can be a bit of a minefield unless you do them regularly and thereās a huge potential for disaster waiting. The thing to remember is that nothing gets done until you āokā it, so if youāre unsure you can easily (with practice) undo your steps right up to the moment you press ok. A driver at our place has been banned from doing them because of repeated ā ā ā ā ups, iirc the last time he did one it recorded that heād worked non stop since 1976!
thatās the problem iām semi retired so work odd days iām ok with the first ones that came out fairly simple its the new 1.4 that are the problem just cant get my head around them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
crannman:
thatās the problem iām semi retired so work odd days iām ok with the first ones that came out fairly simple its the new 1.4 that are the problem just cant get my head around them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I find the 1.4 version from Siemens easier than the early ones! The important thing is that with a 1.4 you really must do a manual entry everytime - whereas the early ones you could select NO to manual input and it wouldnāt cause a problem.
The main problem people seem to have with the 1.4 is during the manual input the first thing they have to select is the mode. After they have selected the mode (and remember we now have ?) it will jump to day, then jump to the hour, then the minute. At this point as soon as you press OK all the data you just entered jumps to the top line and the mode starts flashing again on the bottom line.
Itāll keep going through that routine until you reach the current time. Oh and donāt forget you enter times in local time (as long as the offset is set correctly).
People seem to miss this and think the thing is just going round in circles. Just watch the top line.
Remember once you start the input you canāt leave any gaps.
If thereās a particular problem let me know. I do have a simulator for the 1.4 which is really good but runs from a disc and cost Ā£150! There doesnāt seem to be any free ones.
Pete
Googled and found this:
crannman:
thatās the problem iām semi retired so work odd days iām ok with the first ones that came out fairly simple its the new 1.4 that are the problem just cant get my head around them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Iām in the same boat,just a few days here & there when it takes my fancy
Used to just press No & go 
the video bestbooties has linked is the one Iāve been watching and slowly Iām getting the hang of it,after watching it a fair few times.
Good luck.
thanks for all the info it is slowly going in I just hope they donāt change the thing again
crannman:
thanks for all the info it is slowly going in I just hope they donāt change the thing again
New model being released July - looks completely different. Manual entries via an App - or so Iāve read 