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Dialing strings let you add special numbers to your Contact telephone numbers without modifying the Phone fields for each Contact. There are three types of dialing strings, and Now Contact includes predefined strings for all types.

Along with predefined strings, you can define new strings or modify the predefined ones to suit your needs.

NOTE: When you define or modify dialing strings, inserting a comma anywhere in a string denotes a pause. Use commas to tell Now Contact to pause the dialing process to wait for a confirmation tone.

To define dialing strings:

1. Highlight the Preferences command on the Define menu. A submenu appears, listing the available panes of the Preferences window.

2. Choose Dialing from the Preferences submenu. The Dialing pane of the Preferences window appears.

3. Choose a dialing string option from the Define pop-up menu at the bottom of the window. The scrolling list below the pop-up menu changes to show the strings for the option you chose.

4. Click New. Depending on your choice in step 1, the New Dial Tone, New Prefix, or New Suffix dialog box appears. Each dialog box contains the same components.

5. Enter a descriptive name for your new string in the Name field.

6. Enter the numbers to dial in the Value field. If you define a new dial tone or prefix, remember that the numbers you enter are dialed before the Contact's telephone number, while suffixes are dialed after.

To modify existing strings, select them in the scrolling list, click Edit and change the entries in the Name and Value fields, as desired.

7. Click OK. The new string appears in the scrolling list.

8. Define additional strings, as desired.

9. Close the Preferences window. You return to the current Contact File.