Author: Clive Whitear
Date: February 18th 1999
Version: ER5 release (generic)
Contacts
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Contacts: Quick start
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Contacts is the EPOC machine's name and address book. The contact list on your EPOC machine can be synchronised with a PC scheduler on any PC that has EPOC Connect.
When the Contacts program is first used you'll see an empty contact list on the left of the screen and an empty contact “card” on the right.
To add new entries straight away: tap New contact on the Toolbar. Type in the first entry, press Save to add it, then add further entries in the same way.
To sort contacts in a different way, tap the Sort button on the Toolbar.
To move between the contacts list and the contact card, use the left and right arrow keys.
To move between contacts use the up and down arrow keys to move up and down the list. Use the up and down arrow keys in the contact card to scroll the contact details.
•	You can change the labels of all new contact cards using Setup labels on the Tools menu.
Adding contacts (Contacts)
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1.	Tap New contact on the Toolbar.
2.	Type in the information next to the appropriate labels.
3.	Tap on the line you want to type on or use the up and down arrow keys to move between the lines.
4.	Move to the other pages of the dialog to enter the appropriate details there.
5.	When the entry is complete, press Save.
6.	Add the next entry in the same way.
•	You can change the labels in the contact card using Setup labels on the Tools menu.
Changing contacts (Contacts)
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To change a contact, e.g. to update someone's address, find and select it in the contact list and then press Edit contact on the Toolbar.
Tap on the line for the information to be changed, or use the up and down arrow keys to move to it and edit the text as required.
•	To add new labels to the contact, tap the New item button.
•	You can change the labels in the contact card using Setup labels on the Tools menu.
Deleting contacts (Contacts)
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To delete a single contact, find it in the list view and use Delete contact on the File menu.
If a contact is accidentally deleted, use Undo delete on the Edit menu to get it back again.
To delete all contacts, use More|Delete all contacts on the File menu.
Changing the labels (Contacts)
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To change the labels or their order in the contact card use Setup labels on the Tools menu.
Use the buttons on the dialog to move labels around, to add new labels or to delete unwanted labels or to rename them.
•	The changes you make here will only affect new contacts and not existing ones.
Finding contacts (Contacts)
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To search for contacts in type a "search clue" in the 'Find:' box and press Enter.
All matching contacts are shown.
•	Only the ‘First name’, ‘Last name’ and ‘Company’ labels are searched. To search all labels, use the Find command on the Edit menu.
•	If you want to search for a person’s full name (e.g. ‘Thomas Daniels’), use the ‘Find:’ box as this will search the ‘First name’ and ‘Last name’ labels together.
To remove the search clue:
•	Press Esc to go to the Find: box, then type a new clue, or press Del.
To find entries using any of the last 5 search clues you typed in:
•	Tap on the menu button, then tap on the clue you want to use, or
•	Press Tab, use the up and down arrow keys to select the clue and press Enter.
Search clues
This is a piece of text contained within the entry; it might be a person's name, e.g. 'Patterson-Reid', or part of the other text in the contact details, e.g. 'Bream Road'. Contacts looks for an exact match for the text entered as a search clue, disregarding differences in case. So if the search clue 'tony' is entered, Contacts will find: Tony, tony, TONY, Antony etc. but will not find: Paignton Yachtclub
Wildcards
You can use wildcards in the Find in all text dialog. Type a ? for a single unknown letter or a * for any number of unknown letters (known as "wildcards").
If 'sm?th' is entered, Contacts will find: Smethwick, Smith, Smyth etc.
If 'sm*th' is entered, Contacts will find: Smiley-Thomas, Smethwick etc.
Labels (Contacts)
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Names, addresses, and other contact details are identified by “labels” which appear next to boxes in the New contact dialog. 
Each contact can have a different set of labels.
To add new labels, e.g. to add further phone numbers, tap the New item button on the Add contact or Edit contact dialog. Then select the type of label you want to add.
If you add a label to a particular contact, it does not mean that the label will be available when adding new contacts.
You can have more than one label of the same type in the contact list although this may cause synchronisation problems with a PC based contacts list.
Unwanted duplicate labels are not displayed if they contain no information..
•	You can change the labels and their order in the contact card using Setup labels on the Tools menu.
Adding labels (Contacts)
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To add new labels tap the New item button on the Add contact or Edit contact dialog.
•	You can only add a label to a dialog page if that label type doesn't already appear on a different dialog page.
Add any further labels, as required.
If you add a label to a particular contact, it does not mean that the label will be available when adding new contacts.
You can have more than one label of the same type in the contact list although this may cause synchronisation problems with a PC based contacts list.
Deleting labels (Contacts)
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You can delete a label for all new contacts using Setup labels on the Tools menu.
You can't delete a label for an existing contact, but you can hide a label that’s no longer required by deleting the information contained in it in the Edit contact dialog.
Sorting contacts (Contacts)
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Contacts are listed alphabetically as they are added. To change the sort order, tap the Sort button on the Toolbar and select the required sort order.
Keypresses (Contacts)
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The default keypresses are:
Use the left and right arrow keys to move between the contact card and the contact list.
Use the up and down arrow keys to move up and down in the contact card or contact list.
Press Esc twice to clear the Find: line.
Hold the Shift key down and use the left and right arrow keys to select text in a contact card.
Contact store
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The file containing the contacts list (the “contacts store”) is normally stored on the C: disk. You can move the file to the D: disk using the Preferences command on the Tools menu.
•	It is not possible to have two contacts lists simultaneously
To see the number of contacts in the contacts store and its size in K, use the Contacts store info command on the Tools menu.
•	The contact store is automatically compressed every time Contacts is opened to reclaim any space that may become free when contacts are deleted. If you rarely close Contacts, you can manually compress the contact store using the Compress button on the Contacts store info dialog.
Printing contacts
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Contacts can be printed to a serial, parallel or Infrared printer. Before printing, set up the page (paper size, margins, headers & footers, etc.) using Page setup from the Printing cascade on the File menu.
Use Page setup from the Printing cascade on the File menu to specify whether you want to print 'All contacts in view' (i.e. all the contacts that result from a search, or the entire contact list if you haven't done a search), or only the current one, and to indicate the number of copies required.
Display preferences (Contacts)
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To change the way Contacts looks use View preferences on the Tools menu.
To make more space in the Card view, change the width of the card or hide the labels.
•	Use the Flip screen layout command on the View menu to swap the position of the contact card and contact list.
Dialling from Contacts
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Phone numbers entered in Contacts can be “dialled” automatically, by tapping the Dial button on the Toolbar.
•	To be able to dial a phone number, it must be in a phone number label and the label may not contain any text.
Importing into Contacts
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To import a vCard file into the contact list use the More|Import contact command on the File menu and select the file to be imported. All labels from the imported vCard file will appear in the resulting contact entry.
Exporting from Contacts
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To export a contact as a vCard file use the More|Export contact command on the File menu and select the location for the exported file.
To export a number of contacts into the same vCard file, display the set of contacts you want to export (by searching for a piece of text contained in all of them) before using the More|Export contact command.
Exchanging contacts using infrared
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You can transfer a contact to another EPOC machine or to another device that supports IrObex and the vCard format.
Select the contact to be transferred and use the Infrared commands on the Tools menu to transfer the contact.
Synchronising contacts with a PC
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If you have EPOC Connect version 2.1 or higher, you can synchronise the contacts on your EPOC machine with a contacts database on a PC.
Refer to EPOC Connect documentation for details of how to synchronise contacts.