Windows Live Contacts and Mobile Contacts

[nawat]

I want to use Windows Live Messenger on my Atom Exec. However, I have to import all contacts from WLM into Contacts of my PDA. Now the Contacts are a lot of mess because I already have around 300 people in my phone and now there're additional 200. It's slow and very very difficult to navigate when I want to phone someone. Is there a workaround for this? I've tried using categories. However, when I close and reopen Contacts, the filter is restored to All Contacts.

Thanks.

[Mochan]

Do you mean to say that you now have 500 unique contacts, or is it just that you had 300 contacts and the 200 you imported over duplicated some of them? So do you just have too many contacts?

Well I can think of two things.

First is to use Voice Command. With Voice Command, all you need to do is say, "Call Contact-Name at Mobile" without ever having to go through your contact list. However it is not always practical in all situations.

The other suggestion is to set the "View By" option to Company, then you filter using the Company feature. This "filter" doesn't refresh when you exit the Contact list, so this might help you out.

[nawat]

Some are duplicates. I think it is tedious to get rid of duplication, that is I have to go through all of the contacts. So, I prefer having the phone not displaying imported contacts and just display what I originally have.

Thanks a lot, I'll try justing View by Company.


Ps: Erm.. Is there anyway to set the Company of multiple contacts? Just realize I have 328 Phone contacts and 278 MSN Contacts. O_o

[Mochan]

Hmm I think you have to do them one by one. :(

My suggestion is to do the editing in Outlook and sync that with the phone. But whichever works faster. Hopefully someone has a better fix for this!

[superlj]

Sync the contacts between Windows Live and WM is a hard work when you have 100 more contacts. Besides that, I think Windows Live for Windows Mobile is much better than pocket msn....;)

[tangjunhu]

I'm very like to use Windows Live Messager on my PPC, but mobile contacts will auto import more contacts from live messager, so i'm very dislike it.
I don't know how to set don't import contacts from Live messager.
Now i'm switch back to old Windows Messager.