the most aggravating part of my 800w...

[oneformula]

after 7 years of blackberry and about 5 models that did this easily.... why can't a modern pocket pc (my 800w) make my life easier by allowing me to tap on a phone number in a calendar event???

i get invited to tons of conference calls. what have i been doing all week? taking out a PEN AND PAPER to write down what is already in my 800w as a calendar entry, manually typing it in the phone, and dialing...and then typing in the passcode.

wowsie...

i thought i was an idiot with the instructions, so i IM'd the palm support guy. he confirmed that it won't let me do this simple thing!

what gives??

[oneformula]

oh... another thing.... people often ask for someone's contact info. you can't copy a contact into an email and shoot it to them. ERRRRGG!!!

[Big D5]

"Cut and Paste is your friend" use the stylus to highlight the number tap and hold on the screen select copy go to the dial Pad screen tap and hold in the box select paste hit enter or center on the D-Pad to dial. Works for notes to.

[oneformula]

Originally Posted by Big D5

"Cut and Paste is your friend" use the stylus to highlight the number tap and hold on the screen select copy go to the dial Pad screen tap and hold in the box select paste hit enter or center on the D-Pad to dial. Works for notes to.

won't work for me.

[Big D5]

I know it works for notes are you able to highlight the number in the calendar event? Never had a calendar event so I don't know how the text is rendered. So far my experience has been that if I can highlight it I can cut and past it.

[rododson]

you know, that is damn annoying. You can do it from email, I never looked at the calendar...

[rprockey]

Oneformula, I agree that there are some rather obvious shortcuts that Microsoft and Palm have left out. Since the calendar application is Microsoft, I believe this particular oversight is on them. I seem to recall that I was able to able to dial phone numbers from appointments on my Sprint PPC 6700 (HTC Apache), but that was with Windows Mobile 5 and the Treo 800w runs Windows Mobile 6.

Big D5's solution is confirmed, one can certainly copy a number from a calendar appointment record, and paste it to phone field on the today screen. Big D5's advice is also good, copy and paste and the stylus are your friends in navigating your new WinMo device.

[oneformula]

unfortunately... it is difficult to DRIVE and cut and paste. much easier to just click on a number twice to dial (sorry to say... like a blackberry)

[hibby50]

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[Big D5]

Originally Posted by hibby50

cause the 800w should imo go whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiii splat

Me thinks someone need to take a break from there 800w. Just put down the $600 PPC and back away slowly