Palm Pre P100EWW - Manual (Page 76)

76 Chapter 5 : Email, text, multimedia, and instant messaging
Work with conversations
When you exchange more than one message with a person, the messages
are grouped into a conversation. A single conversation can contain text,
multimedia, and IM messages. When you start or continue a conversation,
the upper part of the conversation screen displays all messages you’ve
exchanged with this person, and the bottom part provides the area where
you type your next message.
You can carry on conversations with multiple people at the same time.
1 Open Messaging .
2 Do one of the following:
• Start a new conversation: Create a message (see Create and send
a text or multimedia message or Send and receive IM messages ), or
tap a message and reply to it.
• Continue an existing conversation: Tap the conversation.
3 Enter your message.
4 Tap .
Switch between messaging accounts in a conversation
In a single conversation, you can switch between text/multimedia
messaging and an IM account. So if you are having an IM chat with
someone and he or she goes offline, you can send the person a text message
to wrap up the conversation. You can also switch between different phone
numbers for sending a text message to a person.
1 In Messaging, start a new conversation or open one that’s listed in
Conversations view.
2 Tap Text or an IM account name in the upper-right corner of the
screen. If available, the other ways to communicate with this contact
appear in a list. Tap the account or phone number you want to use.
Dial a number from a conversation
1 Open Messaging .
2 Tap a conversation, and then tap the contact name or phone number
at the top of the screen.
3 Tap the number you want to dial.
Switch between Conversations view and Buddies view
Conversations view lists all of your Messaging conversations. Buddies view
lists all of your IM buddies.
TIP To save the contents of a conversation, open the conversation, open the
application menu , and tap Copy All. This saves the entire conversation as plain
text, which you can paste in a memo, email message, and so on.