Like the rest of the new 530/830 users I was so excited that I get to program screens on a new Garmin device.
Ok maybe not.
But with a bunch of us getting the 530/830 there's no way around the dreaded programming the screens time again. Since we still don’t have a mobile app to make this less painful; I updated my spreadsheet for building screens based on the data in the 830 manual. Warning that xls has macros in it (aka vba junk code). The only harm it will cause is saving you a couple hours thinking over what fields go where.
www.dropbox.com/.../garminscreens.xlsm
It works, it’s not robust because it doesn’t have to be; if you break it start over with a fresh copy. If you are really stuck ask and if I have time I’ll try and explain.
I haven’t seen a the 830 yet it arrives this week, so the field layout might not be completely right as those were based on a 1030. I'll fix problems as they are reported.
