User Guide

Contacts

Contacts

Contact basics

Add a contact

•To add a contact using the Contacts application, on the Home screen, click the Contacts icon. At the top of the screen, click New

Contact. Type the contact information. Press the key > Save.

•To add a contact from a message, call log, or web page, highlight the contact name, number, or email address. Press the key > Add

to contacts. If necessary, add contact information. Press the key > Save.

Create a custom contact field

Custom contact fields can store information that you want to remember about a contact, for example, you might want to add a custom contact field named Sports team or Favorite color. If you create a custom field for a contact, the field appears for all your contacts.

1.When you are adding or changing a contact, in the Custom Fields section, click Add Custom Field.

2.Click a field.

3.Press the key > Change Field Name.

4.To change the name of the field, place the cursor in the field. Press the key > Change Field Name. Type a name for the field. Press the key on the keyboard.

5.Type the information that you want to add to the custom field.

6.Press the key > Save.

You can synchronize contact fields that you customize on your BlackBerry® device with the email application on your computer. For more information about synchronizing contact fields, see the Help in the BlackBerry® Desktop Software.

Add a pause or a wait to a phone number

Use a pause or a wait to separate additional numbers, for example a password or extension, from a main phone number. After dialing the main phone number, your BlackBerry® device either pauses before dialing the additional numbers (pause) or prompts you to type them (wait).

1.After you type the main part of a phone number in a phone number field, press the key.

2.Click Add Pause or Add Wait.

3.Type the additional numbers.

4.Press the key > Save.

Change or delete a contact

1.On the Home screen, click the Contacts icon.

2.Highlight a contact.

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9800, NO_CARRIERCNETTORCH9800BLKATT, 68001 specifications

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