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Finding records, Looking up contacts records in phonebook – Palm Treo 300 User Manual

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Section 5

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Common Tasks

Finding records

Your phone offers several ways to find information quickly:

All applications:

The Find utility locates any text that you specify,

always starting with the current application.

Date Book Plus, To Do List, Memo Pad:

The Phone Number

Lookup feature displays the Contacts view in PhoneBook and shows
names and phone numbers for entries that have phone numbers.
You can add the information that appears in this list to a record.

PhoneBook:

The Instant Lookup feature lets you scroll immediately

to a Contacts record in PhoneBook by entering the first few letters of
a first or last name, or the first name initial and the first few letters of
a last name.

Expense:

The Lookup feature displays the Contacts in PhoneBook

that have data in the Company field. You can add these names to a
list of attendees associated with an Expense record.

Looking up Contacts records in PhoneBook

When working with the Contacts view in PhoneBook, the buttons on your
phone make it easy to navigate among your Contacts entries.

In the Contacts list screen, the scroll buttons move the highlight.
Holding Shift

and using the scroll buttons moves up or down

an entire screen of records. If you press and hold a scroll button, you
accelerate the scrolling and display every third screen.

In the Contact View screen, the scroll buttons move to the previous or
next Contacts record.

You can also use the Instant Lookup feature, from any of the PhoneBook
views, to quickly scroll to any of your Contacts entries.

To use Instant Lookup to find a Contacts record:

1.

From the Speed Dial, Contacts, or Call History views in PhoneBook,
enter one of the following for the name you want to find:

First name initial and last name.

First name

Last name