Creating a contact on Blackberry.Bold

Imagine that you just ran into Jane Doe, an old high school friend whom you haven’t seen in years. Jane is about to give you her number, but you don’t have a pen or pencil handy to write down her information. Are you then forced to chant her phone number to yourself until you can scare up a writing implement? Not if you have your handy BlackBerry Bold on you.

With BlackBerry in hand, follow these steps to create a new contact:
1. On the BlackBerry Home screen, select the Contacts application.
As we mention earlier, you can also access Contacts from different applications.
2. In Contacts, highlight Add Contact, and then press the trackball.
The New Contact screen appears, as shown in Figure 4-2.
3. Enter the contact information in the appropriate fields.
Use your BlackBerry Bold keyboard to enter this information. Scroll down to see more of the contact fields. When entering an e-mail address, press the Space key to insert an at symbol (@) or a period (.). BlackBerry is smart enough to figure out that you need an @ or a period. We don’t think you can overdo it when entering a person’s contact information. Enter as much info as you possibly can. Maybe the benefit won’t be obvious now, but when your memory fails you or your boss needs a critical piece of info that you happen to have, you’ll thank us for this advice.
4. (Optional) For those contacts who have more than one e-mail address — say, work and home — just create another new, blank E-mail field for the same contact.
You can have up to three e-mail addresses per contact.
a. Press the Menu key.
b. Select Add Email Address.
5. Press the trackball, and then select Save. You should see your new contact added to the list.

Here’s something slick to know when you’re entering phone information for a contact: BlackBerry Bold can also dial an extra number after the initial phone number. That extra number can be someone’s extension, or a participant code on a conference number, or simply your voice mail PIN. When you’re entering the contact’s phone number, type the primary phone number, press the Alt key and press X, and then add the extension number. Say you enter 11112345678X1111; when you tell your Bold to call that number, it will dial 11112345678 first. Then you’ll see a prompt asking you to continue or skip dialing the extension.

The menu is always available through the Menu key, but just for convenience, we prefer to use the trackball, which displays a shortened menu list based on where you are.