98 Organizing Contacts, Appointments, Tasks, and Other Information

6.1 Contacts

Contacts is your address book and information storage for the people and businesses you communicate with. You can create the following types of contacts on your device:

Outlook contacts. Contacts that are stored on your device, which can be created on your device or synchronized with your PC or the Exchange Server.

SIM contacts. Contacts that are stored on the SIM card. Only the name and a phone number can be stored for each entry.

Windows Live contacts. Contacts that you communicate with using Windows Live Messenger or MSN. Just like Outlook contacts, you can also enter complete information for a Windows Live contact. For more information, see “Add Windows Live contacts” in Chapter 10.

Note You can only add Windows Live contacts after you have set up Windows Live on your device.

Add new contacts

To add a contact on your device

1.Tap Start > Contacts.

2.Tap New, select Outlook Contact, and enter the contact information.

3.In the File as feld, choose how you want the contact name to appear in the contact list.

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4.To add a photo of the contact, tap Select a picture, then select the picture fle or tap Camera to take a photo of the contact. This photo appears on the Phone screen when you receive a call from the contact.

5.To assign a ring tone to the contact, tap the Ring tone feld, scroll through the list of tones, then select a desired tone.

6.When fnished, tap OK.

Tips

If someone who is not in your list of contacts calls you, create a contact

 

from Call History by tapping and holding a phone number and then

 

tapping Save to Contacts from the shortcut menu.

 

To save a phone number that is contained in a message, tap the phone

 

number, then tap Menu > Save to Contacts.

 

To edit contact information, tap the contact name then tap Menu > Edit.

To add a contact to your SIM card

1.Tap Start > Contacts.

2.Tap New then select SIM Contact.

3.Enter a contact name and phone number.

4.Tap OK.

Tip You can also use the SIM Manager to add and edit contacts on your SIM card. For more information, see "SIM Manager" later in this chapter.

View, organize and search

To view contact information

1.Tap Start > Contacts.

2.Slide your fnger upward on the touch screen to scroll down the contact list.

To scroll up the contact list, slide your fnger downward on the touch screen.

Note For detailed instructions on how to use finger scrolling, see "Finger scrolling and finger panning" in Chapter 1.

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