Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Owners Manual

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Section 4: Contacts and Accounts
This section explains how to manage contacts and accounts.
Accounts
Your device can synchronize with a variety of accounts. With 
synchronization, information on your device is updated with 
any information that changes in your accounts.
Facebook: Add your Facebook account to sync Contacts.
LinkedIn: Add your LinkedIn account to sync data with LinkedIn.
Twitter: Add your Twitter Social Network Service to sync and 
access your data.
Server:...

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Creating Contacts
1.From a Home screen, touch   Apps 
➔
Contacts ➔.
2.Touch Device or an account.
3.Touch the
 Photo ID to set up a photo to identify the 
contact.
: Choose a photo from the Gallery.
 Take picture: Display the Camera and take a photo of the 
contact.
4.Touch contact fields to display the keyboard and enter 
information:
Tip: Touch the screen and swipe up or down to display 
additional fields or touch 
Next on the keyboard to move to the next field.
: Enter a first name for the contact....

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Touch   to add additional fields.Touch   to remove an 
unused field.
6.Touch 
Add another field to add these additional fields: 
Phonetic name, Organization, IM, Notes, Nickname, 
Website
, Internet call, and Relationship.
7.Touch  
Back to remove the keyboard.
8.When you finish entering information, touch   
Save.
– or –
Touch  
Cancel ➔ OK to cancel and discard 
changes.
Tip: Display a contact’s record and touch the Email field to 
send an email, touch the 
Address...

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Managing Photo IDs
To remove or update a contact’s Photo ID:
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps 
➔
Contacts.
2.Touch  
Menu ➔ Edit in portrait mode.
– or –
Touch  
Edit in landscape mode.
3.Touch the Photo ID, then touch 
Remove, Picture, or Ta k e  
picture
.
Contacts Display Options
There are various ways to display your Contacts and general 
Contacts settings.
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps 
➔
Contacts.
2.Touch 
Groups, Contacts, or Favorites, above the  
Contacts List, to view contacts...

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 Join contact: Join a contact to one or more other contacts. For 
more information, refer to 
“Joining Contacts”  on page 61.
 Mark as default: If a contact has multiple email addresses, for 
example, touch the field that should be the default value.
 Share namecard via: Shares the selected namecard using 
Bluetooth, Email, Gmail, or through Wi-Fi Direct.
 Print namecard: Check mark the fields you want to print and 
then touch 
Print. You can only print on a Samsung...

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: To send an email to one or more members of the 
group, touch and check mark the box next to each contact you 
want to send to, or touch 
Select all, and touch  Done. 
Touch 
Compose Email or Compose Gmail as the method for 
sending the email.
 Change order: Changes the order of how the groups display.
Linked Contacts
Your device can synchronize with multiple accounts, 
including Google, Corporate Exchange, and other email 
providers. When you synchronize contacts from these 
accounts with your...

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Sharing Contact Information
You can send a contact’s information by way of Bluetooth to 
other Bluetooth devices or in an Email or Gmail as an 
attachment.
Note: Not all Bluetooth devices accept contacts and not all 
devices support transfers of multiple contacts. Check 
the target device’s documentation.
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps 
➔
Contacts.
2.Touch 
 Menu ➔ Share namecard via.
Tip: Set up a contact record for yourself to share your 
information with others....

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Groups
Assign contacts to Groups to make searching for contacts 
faster or to quickly send messages to group members.
Creating a New Group
Create a new group when you add or edit a contact.
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps 
➔
Contacts.
2.Touch 
Groups above the Contacts List.
3.Touch .
4.Touch the 
Group name field and use the keyboard to enter a 
new Group name
.
5.Touch 
Add member to add a member to the group. For 
more information, refer to “Adding Group Members”  
on page 64.
6.Touch  
Save to...

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Select all, Starred in Android, or the name of 
each group to delete.
5.Touch  
Delete to delete the groups. Choose from 
Group only or Group and group members.
Adding Group Members
To add a contact to a group, just Edit a contact’s Group field. 
For more information, refer to “Updating Contacts”  on 
page 58.
To add multiple contacts to a group:
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps 
➔
Contacts.
2.Touch 
Groups and then touch the group to which you 
want to add...

653.Touch the   
Star next to the contact name so that it 
turns gold  .
Tip: You do not have to edit the contact to change the Starred status.
Accessing Favorites
You can view your favorites two ways for fast viewing or 
messaging.
To view your favorites list:
1.From a Home screen, touch   
Apps 
➔
Contacts.
2.Touch 
Groups above the Contacts List and then touch 
Starred in Android.
– or –
Touch 
Favorites above the Contacts List.
Only your starred contacts display.
Removing Favorites
To remove one or...