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Creating an address book entry, To create a new address book entry – Palm TUNGSTEN T2 User Manual

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Chapter 5

Using Address Book

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Press the Address Book application button repeatedly to cycle through the

categories in which you have records. You can also press and hold the Address Book
application button to instantly beam your business card to another device with an IR
port. The receiving device must also have an application that can read the Address
Book data.

Creating an Address Book entry

A record in Address Book is called an entry. You can create entries on your
handheld, or you can use Palm™ Desktop software or Microsoft Outlook to create
entries on your computer and then transfer the entries to your handheld with your
next HotSync

®

operation.

Palm Desktop software also has data import capabilities so that you can load
database files into Address Book on your handheld.

See

“Importing data”

in

Chapter 3

and Palm Desktop online Help for more

information.

To create a new Address Book entry:

1.

Press the Address Book application button

on the front of your handheld to

display the Address list.

2.

Tap New.

3.

Enter the last name of the person you want to add to your Address Book.

The handheld automatically capitalizes the first letter of each field (except
numeric and e-mail fields). You do not have to use the Graffiti

®

2 capital stroke

to capitalize the first letter of the name.

4.

Tap the First Name field.

5.

Enter the first name of the person in the First Name field.

Tap New

Cursor
at Last
name