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Create a contact, Find a contact – Palm Pre P100EWW User Manual

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Chapter 6 : Contacts, Calendar, and other personal information

Create a contact

If you are using Contacts for the first time, you go through a few different
steps to add or access the contacts on your phone (see

Use Contacts for the

first time

). Follow this procedure to add contacts directly on your phone

after the first time you use Contacts.

1

Open

Contacts

.

2

Tap .

When you can add a contact to an account, if you don’t specify the
account, the new contact is added to your default account.

3

(Optional) Tap the account icon to the right of

Name

to change the

account to which the new contact will be added.

NOTE

If an account doesn’t appear in the list, you can’t add data to that account

from your phone.

* Account icon, showing Palm profile account

4

Tap fields to enter contact details, select a ringtone for that contact,
add notes, or add birthday details for the contact. Scroll to see all of the
fields available for contact info.

5

Tap

Name

to enter the contact name. To add a prefix and other details

to a name, open the

application menu

and tap

Name Details

.

6

Tap fields to enter contact details, select a ringtone for this contact,
and so on. Scroll to see all fields. You can add a reminder that appears
whenever you and this person get in touch. See

Assign a reminder

message to a contact

.

7

Tap

Done

.

Find a contact

You can find a contact from Card view or the Launcher view. To learn how,
see

Use universal search

. To find a contact within the Contacts app, use

these steps.

1

Open

Contacts

.

2

Enter any of the following:

First, middle, or last name

First and last initial (no space between)

TIP

When you enter a phone number that requires pauses—for example, a

number for which you need to enter a password or respond to prompts, you can
insert a pause or a stop in the number. To insert a two-second pause, enter a

T

where you want the pause to appear. To insert a stop, enter a

P

where you want

the stop to appear. To dial the next set of numbers after the stop, you will need to
tap the screen.