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Working with rows

Everything here happens in the table on the right of the address book.

The search finds a contact by phone number: type the number and the table shows the matching row.

To keep a set of people at hand by any other sign — a city, a status, a manager — give them a book or a group of their own. That is what the tree on the left is for.

Editing one contact​

Editing a row

A row is edited in place: the values become fields, and the two icons at the end of the row confirm or discard the change.

Bulk editing of the table​

The table can also be edited as a whole: you get all the rows at once and save them in one go.

What you save is what the book becomes

The saved table replaces the stored one row by row and position by position, so the rows in the version you save are the rows the book has afterwards. Work on the complete table and save it complete.

Planning to work on a fragment? Export the book first — then the full list is on your disk while you edit.

Moving and copying between books​

Selected rows can be moved or copied into another book. Moving takes them out of this one; copying leaves them in both, and from then on the two copies are independent.

Selected rows can also become a new book in one action, which is the quickest way to split a list without exporting and importing it back.

Merging duplicates​

When rows are copied, or a book is made from a selection, a switch merges duplicate numbers; elsewhere both rows are kept as they are.

A campaign deduplicates its recipient list while it prepares it, so a person who is in the book twice gets one message. The counters go on counting rows, which is why the number of recipients and the number of messages differ.

Export​

Selected rows can be exported to a file. Export is how a book leaves the cabinet — as a copy before a bulk edit, or to work on the list in a spreadsheet and import it back.