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How do I add Quick Dial Numbers?

quick dial editor annotatedTo configure the Quick Dial menu, choose “Edit Quick Dial Numbers...” from any of the Quick Dial menus. This summons the Quick Dial Numbers editor window. Name & Number pairs added to this window will appear in the Quick Dial menu as entered. To rearrange the order of the Quick Dial entries, simply drag and drop the entries in the table to set the order. Alternatively, you can have Dialectic automatically sort your entries using the action menu as discussed below.

1 Add. Click this button to add a new Quick Dial entry. Once added, double-click on the Name or Number fields to edit the contents of the entry. To manually reorder your entries, drag and drop them up and down the list as desired.

2 Remove. Deletes the currently selected entry from the Quick Dial list.

3 Action Menu. quick dial editor action menuThe actions in this menu act on all of the Quick Dial entries in aggregate:

4 Save. Click this to save the Quick Dial entries to a plain text, tab delimited file, as an XML file, or as an HTML file with hyperlinks to the entries using the “dialectic” URI scheme. See importing & exporting for more information.

5 Decrease List Font Size. Click this button to make the font used for the Quick Dial table smaller. This setting is persistent through relaunches.

6 Increase List Font Size. Click this button to make the font used for the Quick Dial table larger. This setting is persistent through relaunches.

In addition to the methods discussed above, you can also use AppleScript to add, edit, or delete Quick Dial entries:

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tell application "Dialectic"
     make new quick dial number at end of quick dial numbers with properties {name:"NYC Information", phone number:"(212) 555-1212"}
end tell
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tell application "Dialectic"
     set name of quick dial number 1 to "New York City Information"
end tell
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tell application "Dialectic"
     try
          delete quick dial number "New York City Information"
     end try
end tell

Related Topics

Quick Dial

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