Contacts
Printer-friendly versionThree ways to make phone calls
Windows Mobile smartphones have a variety of ways that you can make phone calls. Here are the three primary ways:
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Enter message recipients quickly with auto-complete feature
When composing a new text or e-mail message on WM Standard devices, you can quickly and easily enter a recipient from your Contacts in the “To:” field by typing the first few letters of the person’s name, which will open a drop-down menu below the field containing contacts that start with those letters. Simply scroll down and select the desired contact from the list.
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Deleting all Outlook data quickly
For various reasons, you may need to delete all or large portions of your Outlook Mobile Contacts, Calendar, or Tasks entries. For example, you might want to delete a number of contacts at a company that went out of business. The ability to do this quickly is limited on Windows Mobile devices. Here is what you can do:
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Assign pictures to your Contacts
Windows Mobile devices have the ability to assign a picture ID to your Contacts. Once you assign a picture to a contact, it will pop up on your screen when that contact calls you. After you have snapped a picture of the contact with your device (or saved one on it from another location), do the following:
Touch screen devices:
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Add iPhone-like Contact scrolling to your device for free
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Create your own mobile blog
Suzanne Ross from Microsoft explains how you can create your own "moblog" using the built-in Outlook programs and Internet Explorer. Click here for the article.
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Select and dial phone numbers quickly with the D-pad
The Contacts manager built into all Windows Mobile devices lets you store more than one phone number for each contact (Work, Mobile, Home, Fax, etc.). When you tap on an item in the Contacts list, the various numbers are displayed on the screen with icons next to them. If your Windows Mobile device has phone capability, you can tap on the displayed number to place the call. Fortunately, there’s a quicker way to do this:
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Use “Copy Contact†option to duplicate information
If you need to enter multiple new contacts into your device and they have much of the same information, such as several people from the same company, you can use the Copy Contact option instead of creating a new Contact for each person. Follow these steps:
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Synching Contacts between a Pocket PC and a smartphone
Read Werner Ruotsalainen’s recommendation on how to directly sync Contacts between a Pocket PC and a Smartphone using the third-party program Indovisi SMS here.
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How to extract Contacts from backup files
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Use SmartFilter to display the messages you want
The SmartFilter feature allows a user to display only those messages that relate to the filtering criteria entry. This lets the user display the information he or she is interested in. Note that WM 6 does not support synchronization of Contacts subfolders. However, you can use the SmartFilter feature to filter contacts by category. Note also that SmartFilter is available in other applications.
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How to add a number from Call History to your Contacts
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Following up on Contacts in Outlook Mobile
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How to add birthdays and anniversaries to Contacts and have Calendar remind you about them
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Setting the default phone number for a Contact
(Note: This option is only available in pre-WM5 Pocket PCs.) The built-in Contacts applications displays the work phone number of a contact as the default phone number on the main screen when you are viewing the list of all the contacts. If you want, you can change the default phone number that is displayed with the contact name on the main screen. To change it, tap on the single alphabet letter that appears next to the phone number of the contact in the Contacts list.
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Stop using paper notes
Whenever someone gives you a phone number or some other important bit of information, resist the urge to write it on a piece of paper that you'll stuff in your pocket or briefcase. Paper notes are hard to organize and are easily lost. Take the extra 45 seconds to enter the information into Calendar, Contacts, or Tasks. If you're really in a hurry, hold down the voice record button and make a brief recording of the information. Then, when you get some time, transcribe the voice recording and enter the information into the appropriate application.
Switch views quickly with the hardware button in Calendar
To quickly cycle through the day, week, month, and year views in Calendar on your touch screen device, press the Calendar hardware button repeatedly. (If your device does not have a button assigned to Calendar, assign one from the Start >Settings >Buttons utility.) Pressing the Contacts hardware button in the same fashion will cycle through any categories that have been set up.
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Change the default area code in Contacts
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How to search for contacts by phone number
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Transfer Outlook subfolders to Outlook Mobile
Synching Contacts subfolders is not natively supported in ActiveSync. However, PocketMirror Professional (chapura.com) does support synchronization of multiple Outlook Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks folders with the corresponding Outlook Mobile applications. In addition, Microsoft offers an add-on to the desktop PC version of Outlook that enables one-way synchronization of Contacts folders. For more on this, check out pocketpcfaq.com/raj/OutlookPCS.html.
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