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Modifying Contacts

To modify a Contact, find it in the list and double-click. The 'Contact: Inspect' window is opened, containing full details about the Contact:

If the Contact is one that you imported from Skype, all information from the Contact's Skype Profile will have been imported to the appropriate fields. Enter other information as appropriate (E-mail addresses will not be brought in from Skype, for example), then click the [Save] button to save changes or [Cancel] to discard them. Be sure to enter the address lines in the correct fields if you want to use the Map feature.

At the top of the 'Contact: Inspect' window there is an area known as the Button Bar. This contains a set of buttons:

Windows/Linux keyboard shortcuts: PgUp and PgDn
Macintosh keyboard shortcuts: ⌘-- and ⌘-+
These are the [Previous Record] (on the left) and [Next Record] buttons. Use them to go from record to record. Once you have opened a record from the Contact list, click the [Next Record] button to move to the next record in that list. At the same time everything you may have changed in the record you are leaving will be saved. If you want to cancel the changes, close the record window with the close box or press the [Cancel] button on the right of the Button Bar. Similarly, clicking the [Previous Record] button will open the previous record in the list.

These buttons have the same effect as selecting 'Previous' and 'Next' from the Record menu.

Operations Menu
This a single function that you can use to display a Call History for the Contact:

Windows/Linux keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-P
Macintosh keyboard shortcut: ⌘-P
Click this Printer icon to print the Contact record. The 'Print' command on the File menu has the same function.

When you start a printout, it will print directly on your selected printer. Normally, no printer dialogue is shown.

Windows/Linux keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-P
Macintosh keyboard shortcut: ⌘-Shift-P
Clicking the Preview icon will cause the current record to be printed to screen in a new window. This will allow you to see what it will look like when you print it on a printer by clicking the Printer icon immediately to the left.
[New]
Windows/Linux keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-N
Macintosh keyboard shortcut: ⌘-N
Click this button to save the current Contact and to close it. A new blank record is then opened to allow you to create a new Contact record.

[Duplicate]
Windows/Linux keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-K
Macintosh keyboard shortcut: ⌘-Y
Click this button to save the current Contact and to create a copy of it. The original record is closed and the new copy is opened.

[Cancel]
Macintosh keyboard shortcut: ⌘-B
If you have not saved the current Contact (i.e. the window title is 'New'), click this button to cancel the data entry process and to close the window. The Contact will not be saved. If you have previously saved the current Contact (i.e. the window title is 'Update'), click this button to discard all changes made since it was last saved. In this case, the window will not be closed.

[Save]
Windows/Linux keyboard shortcut: Shift-Enter
Macintosh keyboard shortcut: Shift-Enter
This button saves all changes to the current Contact but does not close it.