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CHAPTER 5
Using Address Book
Address Book enables you to keep names, addresses, phone numbers, and 
other information about your personal or business contacts. Use Address 
Book to do the following: 
■Quickly look up or enter names, addresses, phone numbers, and other 
information. See“Finding information” in Chapter 4 for details.
■Enter up to five phone numbers (home, work, mobile, fax, and so on) or e-mail 
addresses for each name.
■Dial a phone number and send an e-mail or SMS message directly...

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TIPPress the Address Book application button repeatedly to cycle through the 
categories in which you have records. You can also press and hold the Address Book 
application button to instantly beam your business card to another device with an IR 
port. The receiving device must also have an application that can read the Address 
Book data.
Creating an Address Book entry
A record in Address Book is called an entry. You can create entries on your 
handheld, or you can use...

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6.Enter the other information that you want to include in this entry.
As you enter letters in the Title, Company, City, and State fields, text appears for 
the first logical match that exists in your Address Book. As you enter more 
letters, a closer match appears. For example, you may already have Sacramento 
and San Francisco in your Address Book. As you enter S, Sacramento appears, 
and as you continue entering a and n, San Francisco replaces Sacramento. As 
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3.Tap the pick list next to the label you want to change. 
4.Select a new label.
Changing Address Entry details
The Address Entry Details dialog box provides a variety of options that you can 
associate with an entry. 
To open the Address Entry Details dialog box:
1.Tap the entry whose details you want to change.
TIPYou can also use the navigator to open an Address entry. See“Using the 
navigator” in Chapter 2 for instructions.
2.Ta p  E d i t .
3.Tap Details.
4.Select any...

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Making connections from Address Book
You can use the entries in your Address Book to launch applications that perform 
tasks such as dialing a phone number or creating an e-mail or SMS message. 
Some of the applications you can launch are included on your handheld, others on 
the Software Essentials CD-ROM that comes with your handheld, and yet others 
may be available from third-party developers and are sold separately. Most of 
these applications require a Global...

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To use Quick Connect from the Address list:
1.Highlight the Address entry to which you want to connect. 
2.Ta p  t h e  M e n u  i c o n   .
3.Select Connect on the Record menu.
4.Select the method you want to use to connect.
Quick Connect initiates the related task. For example, if you tap a phone 
number, Quick Connect sends the selected phone number to your mobile 
phone.
To configure Quick Connect settings:
1.From the Quick Connect dialog box, tap Settings....

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TIPYou can also configure which application opens when you tap a specific Address 
record field, and whether to add a prefix to all phone numbers. See “Quick Connect” 
earlier in this chapter to learn how to configure these settings.
To make a connection with Tap-to-Connect:
1.Open the Address entry to which you want to connect. 
2.Ta p  a n  i t e m .
For example, to dial a phone number, tap the number you want to dial. To 
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Record menus
 
Duplicate 
AddressMakes a copy of the current record and displays the copy in 
Address Edit so you can make changes to the copied record. The 
copy has the same category and attached notes as the original 
record.
ConnectOpens the Quick Connect dialog box, where you can choose 
which application you want to use to make the connection. 
Send CategoryOpens a dialog box where you can choose how you want to send 
all records in the selected category to another...

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Options menus
PreferencesOpens a dialog box where you can choose Address Book 
display options.
Remember last category. Determines how Address Book 
appears when you return to it from another application. If 
you select this check box, Address Book shows the last 
category you selected. If you deselect it, Address Book 
displays the All category.
Rename Custom 
FieldsThese custom fields appear at the end of the Address Edit 
screen. Rename them to identify the kind of...

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