Shortcuts to Phone, Email, Web and Skype
Open Contacts can interact with Windows' telephony program, Emailer and Web browsers. Reference data will pass to these programs according to the settings of predefined fields. In addition, if you use web mails like hotmail, yahoo mail or GMail, you could easily paste multiple Email addresses to a new web mail item.
The Action button is a magic button that will change its appearance and associated commands according to what data field is highlighted in a contact edit window, or whether a contact list window is activated, or which email program/function will be used for emailing functions.
Telephony
When you click on a phone field, the Action button will change for telephony. Clicking on the Phone button will result in launching Windows' telephony program (Phone Dialer ) with the phone number.
Emailing
When you click on any data field of Email address, the Action button will change for Emailing. Clicking on the Email button will create a new Email window with the email address.
If the Email program to be used by Open Contacts is Microsoft Outlook, you will have more options of adding Email addresses to Microsoft Outlook. For example, the Email address could pass to the CC field of current Email item of Outlook.
You may also create Email to multiple contacts.
Web Browsing
When you click on any field of Web address, the Action button will change for Web browsing. Click on the Web button will launch Windows' default Web browser (MS Internet Explorer, Netscape or Mozilla Firefox) with the URL.
Skype
When a Skype field is selected, the Action button will allow you to start a call or start a chat with the Skype name.
Note: As Skype was introduced since Version 2.8.1, if you are an existing user of Open Contacts and want to keep existing database files, you will need to create a predefined field named "Skype" or whatever name you want, and define this field with skype type and skype action.
Hints:
When the action button is for a contact edit window, you can always press key F9 to fire the action. If the action button is associated with more than one commands, the first one will be fired.