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While You Were Out Notes

A While You Were Out note is a window containing various preset fields and checkboxes, convenient for creating a note summarizing the details of a call. To summon a new While You Were Out note, click the notepad button in the main window. Alternatively, choose New While You Were Out Note from the main menu. You can also create a new note using a hotkey.

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You can have multiple While You Were Out notes open simultaneously. When a note is closed, its contents are lost, and depending on your preferences you may get a dialog reminding your of this fact. However, in the preferences you can opt to have notes that are open when you quit Dialectic to persist automatically and be re-opened the next time you launch the application. To suppress the reminder dialog for an individual note without changing your preferences, hold the Control key as you click a note’s close button.

1 Date & Time Stamp. This button inserts the current date and time into the “Date” and “Time” fields.

2 For AB Menu. An alphabetically sorted list of your Address Book contact names for quickly entering a name in the “For” field. See Using the AB Menus for more information.

3 From AB Menu. An alphabetically sorted list of your Address Book contact names & their associated phone numbers for quickly entering information in the “From”, “Of”, “Number”, & “Label” fields. See Using the AB Menus for more information.

4 Action Menu. Use this menu to send this While You Were Out note to another application.

5 Save. Click this to save this While You Were Out note to a plain text file, as a PDF, or as one of several image formats.

6 Email. This button will create a new email in your default email client and include the contents of this While You Were Out note as the body of the new message.

7 Print. Click here to print the contents of this While You Were Out note or export it as a PDF document.

8 Clear. This button will clear the contents of this While You Were Out note. Note: This is a permanent action so be careful when using this feature.

9 Decrease Font Size. Click this button to make the font used for the message field smaller.

10 Increase Font Size. Click this button to make the font used for the message field larger.

11 Color. Use this to choose the background color for this note.

12 New. Create a new, blank While You Were Out note.

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Using the AB Menus

Exporting, Emailing, & Printing

While You Were Out Notes

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