Contacts

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• Creating or Editing a Contact
• E-mailing a Contact
• Finding a Contact
• Changing Contacts Options

Maintain a list of your family, friends, and colleagues so you can easily find the information and stay in touch, regardless of where you are. You can enter both personal and business information.

Creating or Editing a Contact

To create a contact, press F1+F2. When the Contact details page initially opens, the Name expand field is active. You type in the name of your contact and when you are done press DOT 8 to move out of the edit field or if you want to add a title, middle name or suffix, press SH CHORD, F to expand the field. Press DOWN ARROW to move to the next item in the expand field. To close an expand field, press F1.

Press DOWN ARROW to move to the next edit field. Press DOT 8 to move into the field and type in the information. Press DOT 8 again to move out of the field and press DOWN ARROW to move to the next field. You enter information about a contact by using this command sequence of DOT 8 and DOWN ARROW.

When you move to the "Birthday" and "Anniversary" items, press DOT 8 and use the arrow keys to move between month, day, and year. As you move to each part of the date, type in the new month, day and year. You can also press DOT 7+DOWN ARROW to open the Date Selector where you use the Date Selector commands to select a date. When finished, press DOT 8 to return to the list of fields.

Note: If you are using a braille display and you select the Street edit field in any of the Address expand fields, the display will initially be blank as this is a multi-line edit field where you can enter address information.

To add additional information about your contact, like when is it appropriate to call etc., press DOTS 5-6 CHORD to move to the Notes page. When finished, press F1 to save the contact and return to the contact list view. If you entered information using grade 2, it is automatically back translated into computer braille when saved.

To edit contact information, you have two options:

• Select the contact in the Contacts list view and press DOT 8. A Summary page opens displaying a list of only the fields used in the selected contact. For example, in the selected contact, you may have only included the name, home address, and home telephone. Use the arrow keys to locate the information you want to edit, such as the phone number, and press F1+F2. Edit the item then press DOT 8 to return to the contact details page. At this point you can add additional information to the contact if necessary. When done, press F1 to return to the contacts list view.
• Select the contact in the Contacts list view, press F4+F5 to open the menu, and choose Edit. You are placed in the Name edit field which contains the name of the selected contact. Follow the steps above to modify the contact then press F1 to return to the Contacts list view.

If contracted braille input is enabled, when you press DOT 8 on an item that opens an edit field, such as the subject, the text is translated into grade 2 for editing and back to computer braille when you close the edit field.

New contacts are added to the category that is currently displayed.

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E-mailing a Contact

In the contact list, select the contact and press F2 CHORD. On the menu, press DOT 8 on "Send E-mail."

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Finding a Contact

There are several ways to find a contact:

• Use the Search Feature in the Programs Menu or in the contact list, press F4+F5, and select Filter. Select the type of contact that you want displayed. To show all contacts again, select All Contacts. To view a contact not assigned to a category, select No Categories.
• Press DOTS 4-5 CHORD to move to the Contacts filter edit box and begin typing the contact name. As you type, the PAC Mate Omni will speak the first contact name that matches the letters you have entered. Press DOTS 4-5 CHORD to move back to the Contacts list view and only the contacts that match what you typed are displayed. To display all of your contacts again, press DOT 7 until the first contact is displayed.
• To view the names of companies your contacts work for, in the contact list, press F4+F5 and select View, then select By Company. The number of contacts that work for that company will be displayed to the right of the company name.

Tip: In the Search dialog box, you can select from a list of contacts that you already looked for in the Search edit combo box. Use the cursor cross to open the list.

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Changing Contacts Options

In the contact list view, press F4+F5, move to Options, and press DOT 8.

• Select the Show Contact Names Only check box to have only the names of your contacts displayed in the list view.
• In the Area Code edit field, enter the area code you would like to have automatically entered when specifying a phone number for a contact.

The PAC Mate Omni does not directly support the Show Alphabetical Index check box. However, this feature can be accessed to some extent using the JAWS Cursor. When this check box is checked, the letters of the alphabet are displayed in groups of three near the top of the screen directly above the first listed contact. Navigate to a letter group with the JAWS cursor and if you are using a braille display, press a cursor router on that group. Otherwise, use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROW keys to navigate to one of the groups and press DOT 8 CHORD, DOT 7 to perform a Left Mouse Click. When you select one of these letter groups, you are placed in the list of contacts whose names begin with the selected letter.