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Any suggestions for listing married couples with different last names? I know I can enter both names under one listing, but I'd prefer not to so each name will be alphabetized appropriately. And unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a 'create duplicate' function for address listings -- otherwise, I could easily just create the record for one spouse, duplicate it and change the name for the other spouse; I'd have liked to be able to do this so I wouldn't have to re-create common information in the notes section (e.g. children's names, birthdays, etc.)

Not a critical issue, but if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

Hmmm. It seems strange that there would be no way of copying an address entry, but I just checked and there really isn't a way to do this directly.

Have you tried using the desktop? If you can't cut and paste entire entries there, it should at least be easier to create the new one by cutting and pasting fields.

[Edited by sowens on 09-25-2000 at 01:18 PM]

You might have to do this on the desktop side. I know on the Palm Desktop you can copy and paste entries and will allow "duplicate" entries to be made this way.

But I'm unaware of a method to do this on the PDA side (I'd guess one of the address book replacement apps might have this feature).

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Originally posted by ProjectZero
... I know on the Palm Desktop you can copy and paste entries and will allow "duplicate" entries to be made this way...

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Address+ lets you create duplicate entries

Address+ lets you create duplicate entries, which is really useful.

I keep a couple of Unnamed entries at the top of my address book with partially completed phone numbers (eg +44 20 7 for inner London) in most fields. This lets me enter a new contact sbout as quickly as in a paper diary.

leojbramble,

You can copy 'n paste an entire entry, including any notes that might be attached to it.

I've had to do this a couple of months ago when I was testing a custom conduit and the sync process mangled a couple of entries on both the Palm Desktop and my Visor.

Fortunately, I had an archive copy of the address book-- I just opened it up in the Palm Desktop, selected and copied the desired entry, switched back to the current file and pasted.