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How-To Add New and Favorite Contacts
CaptionCall allows you to store your contacts' phone numbers right on your phone for quick, convenient calling.

You may know your family members’ phone numbers by heart, but what about your neighbor? Or a more recent friend you just met? Or your doctor’s office? 
With the CaptionCall phone, you can save and easily access your contacts for faster calling and to quickly recognize incoming calls from known numbers.

Let’s review the three most important CaptionCall Contacts features:

  • Adding new contacts 
  • Saving a contact from a recent call 
  • Making an existing contact a “Favorite” 
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Add a New Contact

You can add contacts manually by following these steps: 

  1. Touch the Contacts icon. 
  2. To add a new name, touch NEW CONTACT in the top right. To edit or delete a contact, touch the name on the screen. 
  3. Touch each field to enter your contact’s name and phone number(s).
    For example, when you touch First Name, use the keyboard that appears to type in the person’s first name.
    Touch another field to add the last name or phone number. You don’t have to fill out every field. 
  4. Touch the green Save checkmark in the top left corner to save this information to your Contacts list. 
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Favorite Contacts

If you had to guess, how many contacts do you have saved in your address book? Now, how many do you actually use on a regular basis?  
Scrolling through your entire address book to find one of those contacts can be frustrating. That’s why your CaptionCall phone enables you to mark them as a Favorite to pin them to the top of your Contacts list. 

  1. Touch the Contacts icon to go to your Contacts list. 
  2. Touch the name you want, then touch OPTIONS in the top right. 
  3. Touch Set as Favorite. This name and number will now appear at the top of your Contacts list. 
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Add a Recent Caller to Your Contacts list 

Manual entry isn’t the only way to add contacts to your CaptionCall phone. If you get a call from a number you’d like to save, you can do so in a few simple steps: 

  1. Touch Recent Calls. Next to the name or number you want to add, touch DETAILS. 
  2. Touch OPTIONS in the top right corner. 
  3. Touch the menu to Create a new contact, or Add to an existing contact (for example, if this is a cell phone number you want to add to someone’s name). 
  4. Follow the prompts and touch Save. (See full instructions to add a contact above.)