Entering email addresses

[Guest fraser]

'lo all,

I've had my PPC for well over a year and I only found this the other day and I seem to use it all the time. Might be old news for most of you, but you never know. Anyway, I always used to click on either "To:" or the contacts icon at the bottom, then find the contact and then press left/right to select the address to use. Very clumsy.

Well, what's new to me is that you can just start typing the name and it'll fill the rest for you, like predictive text but with your contacts. It even automatically lists their mobile if you are sending a text, and email for an email. Handy, especially if you have a keyboard!

[Guest galtish]

Well, what's new to me is that you can just start typing the name and it'll fill the rest for you, like predictive text but with your contacts. It even automatically lists their mobile if you are sending a text, and email for an email. Handy, especially if you have a keyboard!

Not new to me, but it's good of you to post the tip. Actually this feature is a constant source of frustration to me for two reasons: The "predictive" aspect only works using the name for the contact, if you begin to enter the email address for the contact it will not recognize it as one in your database and offer it as an auto-complete. The Sidekick/Hiptop was much better with suggesting recipients for emails or text messages because it would instantly suggest recipients based on many fields in the contact database including 1st and last name, nick name, & email address or phone number.

The 2nd thing that bugs me about Windows Mobile's auto-complete feature is that it only works if you initiate a email from within the app - it seems that if another application triggers a new email to be created (such as choosing a file to send via email in a file explorer program) the auto-complete feature is not active and you must go to "add recipient" via the menu.

[Guest Confucious]

The 2nd thing that bugs me about Windows Mobile's auto-complete feature is that it only works if you initiate a email from within the app - it seems that if another application triggers a new email to be created (such as choosing a file to send via email in a file explorer program) the auto-complete feature is not active and you must go to "add recipient" via the menu.

Iyt works fine for me on my Exec from anywhere and as I tend to know the name of the person I'm semding to rather than their email address I find this very useful.