HTC RHOD500 user manual Contacts, Adding new contacts, Organizing and searching contacts

132  Programs

12.2  Contacts

Contacts is your address book for people and businesses you communicate with. You can add Outlook contacts from your device or synchronized with your PC or the Exchange Server.

Note See Chapter 2 for information on adding SIM contacts.

To open the Contacts screen

Tap Start > All Applications > Contacts.

Adding new contacts

To add a contact on your device

1.On the Contacts screen, tap New, select Outlook Contact, and enter the contact information.

2.To add a photo of the contact, tap Select a picture, and then select the picture file or tap Camera to take a photo of the contact.

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

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

5.When finished, tap OK.

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

Organizing and searching contacts

To group similar contacts

For easier contact management, you can group contacts by assigning them into categories.

1.Create a new Outlook contact or edit an existing Outlook contact.

2.Tap Categories.

3.Select a preset category such as Business or Personal, or tap New to create your own category.

4.When finished, tap OK.

To find a contact on your device

There are several ways to find a contact when your contact list is long:

•Begin entering a contact name in the provided text box until the contact you want is displayed.

•On the Quick Scroll bar on the right of the Contacts screen, scroll to or tap a letter to go directly to the part

of the contacts list where contact names start with that	Quick
letter.
Note You can disable the Quick Scroll bar by tapping Menu	Scroll
	bar
> Options and selecting the Show alphabetical index
check box. This shows the alphabetical index at the top
of the Contacts list.
• Filter the list by categories. In the contact list, tap
Menu > Filter, then tap a category you’ve assigned to
a contact. To show all contacts again, select Menu >
Filter > All Contacts.