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User Guide Contacts

Contacts

How to: Contacts

Contact basics

Add a contact

Do one of the following:

•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 webpage, highlight the contact name, number or email

address. Press the key > Add to Contacts > Create New Contact. 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 Favourite colour. If you create a custom field for a contact, the field appears for all of 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.To change the name of the field, place the cursor in the field. Press the key > Change Field Name.

4.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 synchronise contact fields that you customise on your BlackBerry smartphone with the email application on your computer. For more information about synchronising 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 dialling the main phone number, your BlackBerry smartphone either pauses before dialling 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.

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