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84 Chapter 6 : Personal information
Contacts
How do I add names and other info into Contacts?
You have a few options for getting contact info into to show up in your
Contacts.
Connect to an online address book. If you have an address book in an
online account that works with the Palm
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Synergy™ feature (for example,
Google or Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync), you can set up Contacts on your
phone to synchronize and display contacts that you store in the online
address book. Set up synchronization the first time you open Contacts (see
Use Contacts for the first time), or anytime after that (see Customize
Contacts). After you set up the connection to the online address book,
contacts you enter online show up automatically in Contacts, and contacts
you enter on your phone sync to the online account, provided the account
allows writing from the phone to the online account.
The Synergy feature makes it easy to synchronize other data from an online
account. By setting up synchronization in one app, synchronization of the
other apps is automatically set up for you. For example, if you set up your
Gmail account in Email before you set up Contacts, when you first open
Contacts, you find that your Google contacts are already downloaded. And
when you first open Calendar, you find that your Google calendar events are
already in your phone’s Calendar.
NOTE See the online accounts table at the back of the user’s guide for
the current list of online accounts that you can set up on your
phone,
from which you can access contacts.
Transfer contacts using the Data Transfer Assistant: When you transfer
contacts from desktop software, you select which account to assign those
contacts to. Look for those contacts in the account you select (see How do I
get data off my computer?).
Enter a contact directly in Contacts: See Create a contact for instructions.
You can assign the contact to one of your online address books—if you do, it
synchronizes with the online address book. Or you can create the contact in
your Palm profile account, which means it shows up on your phone only.
Palm profile contacts are included in the daily backup of your Palm profile
information, so you can restore them if they are accidentally erased.
Download vCard info to Contacts: A vCard is an electronic business card
attached to an email or an MMS. If you receive an email or an MMS with a
vCard attachment, download the attachment to Contacts. See Receive
vCards.
Linked contacts
The Synergy feature automatically links contacts from different accounts if it
finds data in common between them. For example, if you have a contact in
Exchange and in Google for Thomas Flagg, your phone links the contacts so
that all of Thomas’s info shows up on a single contact screen. You need to
open just one view to see all of Thomas’s info. The actual data remains
stored separately with your different providers; it's just assembled in one
view on your phone for your convenience.
How can you tell if a contact is linked? Look in the upper-right corner of the
contact screen. If you see a stack of photos and a number, that means that
you're looking at a linked contact, with combined info from contacts you're
storing with separate providers.