Contacts

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• Creating or Editing a Contact
• E-Mailing a Contact
• Finding a Contact
• Changing Contacts Options

Maintain a list of your family, friends, and colleagues so you can easily find the information and stay in touch, regardless of where you are. You can enter both personal and business information.

Creating or Editing a Contact

To create a contact, press CTRL+N. When the Contact details page initially opens, the Name expand field is active. You type in the name of your contact and when you are done press ENTER to move out of the edit field or if you want to add a title, middle name or suffix, press ALT+F to expand the field. Press DOWN ARROW to move to the next item in the expand field. To close an expand field, press ESC.

Press DOWN ARROW again to move to the next edit field. Press ENTER to move into the field and type in the information. Press ENTER again to move out of the field and press DOWN ARROW to move to the next field. You enter information about a contact by using this command sequence of ENTER and DOWN ARROW.

When you move to the "Birthday" and "Anniversary" items, press ENTER and use the arrow keys to move between month, day, and year. As you move to each part of the date, type in the new month, day and year.

To add additional information about your contact, like when is it appropriate to call etc., press CTRL+TAB to move to the Notes page. When finished, press ESC to return to the contact list view.

To edit contact information, press ENTER on the name in the contact list view.

New contacts are added to the category that is currently displayed.

E-mailing a Contact

In the contact list, select the contact and press the Application Key. On the menu, press ENTER on "Send E-mail."

Finding a Contact

There are several ways to find a contact:

• Use the Find Feature in the Start Menu or in the contact list, press ALT, and select Show By. Select the type of contact that you want displayed. To show all contacts again, select All Contacts. To view a contact not assigned to a category, select No Categories.
• To view the names of companies your contacts work for, in the contact list, press ALT and select View, then select By Company. The number of contacts that work for that company will be displayed to the right of the company name.

Tip: In the Find dialog, you can select from a list of contacts that you already looked for in the Find edit combo box. Use the arrow keys to open the list.

Changing Contacts Options

In the contact list view, press ALT, move to Tools and press ENTER. Move to Options and press ENTER again. Choose the List View options of your preference.

PAC Mate does not support the "Use large font" item.

The area code and country/region for new contacts are automatically entered based on the information in Country/Region settings.