Manage Contacts

Applies to: Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC

Contacts is your address book and information storage for the people and businesses you communicate with. Store phone numbers, e-mail addresses, home addresses, and any other information that relates to a contact, such as a birthday or an anniversary date. You can also add a picture or assign a ringtone to a contact.

From the contact list, you can quickly communicate with people. Tap a contact in the list for a summary of contact information. From there, you can call or send a message.

Want to find a contact quickly? There are several ways to organize your contacts. View contacts by name or grouped by company. Or, assign one or more categories to contacts, so you can quickly filter them.

If you use Outlook on your PC, you can synchronize contacts between your device and PC.

Manage Contacts

Create a contact

Note

If your contact list has been filtered by a category when you create a contact, that category is automatically assigned to the new contact.

Tips

If someone who isn’t in your list of contacts calls you or sends you a message, you can create a contact from Call History, or from the message by tapping Menu > Save to Contacts.

To include a nickname, title, and more, while creating a contact, tap the Name arrow. For an existing contact in the contact list, tap the contact, tap Menu > Edit, and tap the Name arrow.

If most of the contacts you create have phone numbers that begin with the same area code, in the contact list, tap Menu > Options and enter that area code in the Area code box.

Edit a contact

Tip

To include a nickname, title, or other information for an existing contact, tap the contact, tap Menu > Edit, then tap the Name arrow.

Find a contact

There are several ways to find a contact when your contact list is long.

Note

To search for a contact by entering a name or number, or by using the alphabetical index, you must be in Name view. To switch to Name view, tap Menu > View By > Name.

Tips

You can locate your contacts by the name of the company they work for. In the contact list, tap Menu > View By, and tap Company. Tap the company to see the contacts who work there.

When working in Company view, you can filter by categories you’ve assigned to contacts. Then, only the companies with contacts that have that category assigned to them will appear in the list.

Send a message to a contact

Tip

To quickly add a contact’s address to a new message, tap the To, Cc, or Bcc line, and tap Menu > Add Recipient. Tap the contact you want to send the message to and choose the address if necessary.

Add a picture to contact information

Remove a picture from contact information

Create a contact from an existing one

If you want to create multiple contacts that have similar contact information, you can save time by creating one contact and then copying it.

Note

The displayed category is automatically assigned to the new contact.

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