Searching for a contact
About this task
Use this task to search for a contact that already exist in your contacts list.
You
can jump to a certain group of letters in your contacts list by pressing the associated dial
pad button. For example, if you press 3, the deskphone displays entries starting with D, E, or
F depending on the names of contacts that you might have in the contacts list that start with
any of these letters. With each successive dialpad key press, the deskphone displays the
matching entries.
Procedure
1. Press CONTACTS.
2. Use the dialpad to type the name that you want to search.
If you set up your contacts in the Last Name and First Name format, type the letters
of the last name. If you have set up your contacts using a different format, type the
most likely letters that matches the contact that you want to find.
3. When the deskphone displays the required match, you can perform any of the
following actions:
• To call the contact, press Call.
• To edit the contact information, press More > Edit.
Next steps
If
your administrator has set up a corporate contact list or database, you can extend a search.
For information, see
Extended searching on page 65.
Extended searching
About this task
If
your system administrator has set up a corporate contact list or database and has made the
extended searching feature available, you can make a call to other users in your system by
name.
Procedure
1. Press Contacts.
2. Press More > Search.
Searching for a contact
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