Phone Dialer

We've added a phone dialer to dial the phone numbers stored in the Address Book records. You need to have a modem installed on your computer to use this feature.

To open the Phone Dialer, click the button or use the "Tools - Phone Dialer" program's main menu item.

The "Phone Dialer" window will appear.

In this window you can enter a phone number manually or select it from the available phone numbers of selected contact.

Then click the "Dial Number" button to start dialing.

To cancel dialing, click the "Hang Up" button.

To start talking over the phone, pick up the phone and then click the "Hang Up" button.

If the "Redial if busy" option is turned on the phone number will be redialed automatically if the line is busy.

Please note that you should select the fields which contain the phone numbers to dial. To select these fields, please select the "Select fields" button.

Appropriate dialog box will appear:

Select the fields which will be available for dialing and click "OK" button.

To customize the modem settings, please click the "Modem Settings" button.

Appropriate dialog box will appear:

Using this window you can select to dial the phone numbers, dialing options (pulse or tone dialing) and local area call prefix if necessary (this prefix will be dialed before the phone number).