Re: [NTLK] A small discovery

From: Michael Blazer (m.blazer_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 13:24:45 PDT


Quoting Robert Benschop <rbenschop_at_telebyte.nl>:

> On 25-okt-04, at 17:48, Michael Blazer wrote:
> > I tried that one upon a time, but it wouldn't recognize written or
> > printed names in the
> > number field, and I couldn't figure out how to get an alphabetical
> > keyboard to pop up. I
> > guess I could write the name somewhere else and drag it in, but that
> > seemed a little
> > inconvenient. How did you do it?
>
> Write in the extension field, it seems to expect both numbers and
> letters, so you have to write well.
> From there you can just drag it one line up...

Hmmm... mine won't do letters. If I write, it just stays as ink text, and if I print
very carefully, it interprets it as digits (so my daughter Davida becomes "291199").

Is yours an English system? I wonder what's different or what I'm doing wrong?

Michael

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