Palm TREOPROBLKSPT manual Dialing by Contact Name

Dialing by Contact Name

You can look up contacts quickly by entering just a few letters of a contact’s name directly from your Today screen. Before you can dial a call by contact name, you must create some contacts (see “Adding a Contact” on page 258) or import them by synchronizing (see “Connecting to Your Computer” on page 39).

1.Go to your Today screen.

2.Use the keyboard to type the first or last name of the contact you want to call. (If you enter both the first and last name [or the first letters of each], enter a space between the two names.)

Tip

To delete letters when correcting a misspelled name, press Backspace.

If you press E, R, or any other key that displays both a letter and a number, you see onscreen not only matching names but the number as well. The numbers do not affect the process for dialing by contact name.

3.Matching contacts are displayed with a code for the type of number you last entered for that contact: “w” for work, “m” for mobile, and so on.

■If the contact name appears with the code for the number you want to dial, highlight the name and press Phone/Talk to dial the number.

■If you want to dial a different number for a displayed contact, highlight the contact name and press Right or Left until the code you want appears. Press Phone/Talk to dial the number associated with the code.

■If you want to select from other ways to communicate with that person, highlight the contact’s name, press Center (or tap and hold with the stylus), and then select the communication method you want to use.

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Phone Features