Chapter 9: Using the contacts feature
You can save up to 250 names and up to 6 telephone numbers for each name. When you press the
Contacts button, the phone activates the Contacts search mode automatically.
Note:
When you press the Contacts button you might not see all of the functions that are described in
this chapter. The functions are not available because your administrator has disabled changes
to Contacts.
Searching for a contact
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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 phone 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 phone 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.
Extended searching
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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.
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