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Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Windows Phone 7 photos so that you can see exactly what to do   Help when you run into Windows Phone 7problems or limitations   Tips and Notes to help you get the most from yourWindows Phone 7 device   Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Windows Phone 7 working just the way you want. Learn how to:   • Get started fast! Covers Windows Phone 7.5 Mango release. • Master Windows Phone 7’s elegant interface and powerful shortcuts • Quickly set up ringtones, voicemail, Airplane Mode, wallpaper, accessibility, and more • Connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth devices • Get and send messages easily via Outlook, Windows Live, and Google accounts • Find almost anything with content search, contact search, and Bing web search • Work seamlessly with OneNote, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint documents • Use Zune and Marketplace to import media content and download applications • Discover your phone’s built-in apps, and easily pin them to your Start screen • Store content in the cloud, with Microsoft SkyDrive • Reach your destination faster with Maps, GPS, and turn-by-turn voice directions • Use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn social networking via the People Hub • Capture, store, and share photos • Track your calendar—including events stored on Microsoft Exchange • Use the Xbox LIVE Hub to transform your Windows Phone into a great mobile gaming system  

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Author:   Brien Posey
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Que Corporation,U.S.
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.698kg
ISBN:  

9780789748256

ISBN 10:   0789748258
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   19 January 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780789748539
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction    1 The History of Windows Mobile    1 My Impressions of Windows Phone 7    5 1  Getting Started with Windows Phone 7    9 Minimum Hardware Specifications    9 The Phone’s External Features    10 The Initial Configuration    13 Configuring the Phone Using the Recommended Settings    13 Configuring the Phone Using Custom Settings    17 Install the Zune Software    20 Installing Zune Software    20 Adding the Phone to Zune    22 Updating the Phone    23 Using the Zune Software to Check for Updates    23 Checking for Updates Without the Zune Software    24 The New Interface    25 The Lock Screen    25 The Start Screen    26 Using the Phone’s Hardware Buttons    28 Touch Gestures    30 The Soft Keyboard    31 The Hardware Keyboard    35 Customizing the Start Screen    36 Moving a Tile    36 Removing a Tile    36 Adding a Tile    37 Resetting Your Phone    38 2  Basic Device Settings    41 Accessing the Device Settings    41 Themes    43 Wi-Fi Networking    43 Enabling or Disabling Wi-Fi    44 Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network    44 Removing Known Networks    47 Changing Wallpaper    48 Screen Time Out    49 Passwords    50 Enable a Password    50 Change Your Password    51 Disable a Password    52 Date and Time    53 Setting the Date and Time Automatically    54 Setting the Date and Time Manually    55 Changing Time Zones    56 Using Military Time    57 Disabling Military Time    58 Screen Brightness    58 Automatically Adjusting the Screen Brightness    58 Manually Adjusting the Screen Brightness    59 Controlling the Keyboard’s Behavior    60 Setting the Keyboard Language    60 Clearing Custom Suggestions    61 Region and Languages    62 Accessibility    63 Find My Phone    64 Configuring the Find My Phone Settings    64 Finding Your Phone    66 About Your Phone    67 Providing Feedback    68 3  Messaging    71 Setting Up a Windows Live Account    71 Setting Up Exchange Email    72 Simplified Exchange Server Connectivity    73 Advanced Exchange Server Connectivity    74 Connecting to Yahoo! Mail    76 Connecting to Google Mail    77 Setting Up POP3 / IMAP4 Messaging    78 Microsoft Outlook Mobile    80 Accessing Your Mailbox    80 The Outlook Mobile Interface    81 The Anatomy of a Message    82 Opening a Message    82 Opening an Attachment    83 Replying to a Message    83 Replying to Multiple Recipients    84 Forwarding a Message    85 Viewing New Mail    85 Viewing Urgent Mail    86 Deleting a Message    87 Marking a Message as Read    89 Marking a Message as Unread    90 Marking Multiple Messages as Read or Unread    90 Moving a Message    91 Performing a Bulk Move    92 Viewing Folders    93 Flagging a Message    94 Composing a New Message    97 Canceling a New Message    99 Adding Message Attachments    100 Setting Message Priority    102 CC and Blind CC    103 Checking for New Mail    104 Removing Mail Accounts    104 Linking Mailboxes    105 Unlinking Inboxes    106 Conversation View    107 Message Signatures    107 Blind CCing Yourself    108 4  The Multimedia Experience    111 The Summary Screen    111 Setting Up a Zune Account    112 Managing Your Collection    115 Adding Music to Your Phone    116 Adding Videos to Your Phone    117 Adding Pictures to Your Phone    118 Adding Podcasts to Your Phone    119 Configuring Sync Options    125 Sync Groups    126 Removing Synchronized Content    131 Wirelessly Syncing Your Phone    132 Playing Music Through the Phone    134 Playing Songs    134 The Play Screen    135 Playing an Album    136 Playing a Music Genre    137 Playing a Specific Artist    138 Play Lists    139 Creating a Play List    140 Adding a Playlist to the Phone    142 Playing a Playlist    143 Creating an Auto Playlist    144 Playing Music in the Background    145 Controlling Music From the Start Screen    146 Using the Smart DJ    146 Playing Videos    148 The Video Screen    149 Making a Video Selection    150 Editing Video Metadata    151 Categorizing Television Shows    153 Viewing Your Pictures Through the Phone    154 Viewing Pictures    155 Radio    156 Tuning a Radio Station    157 Adding a Radio Station to Your Favorites List    158 Accessing Your Favorite Radio Stations    158 Removing a Favorite Station    159 History    160 Playing Music from the History Page    160 Displaying New Content    161 Erasing All Content    162 Managing Multiple Devices    163 Forgetting a Device    164 5  Windows Phone 7 Apps.    167 Alarms    167 Setting an Alarm    168 Disabling an Alarm    169 Deleting an Alarm    169 Calculator    170 Accessing the Calculator    170 The Scientific Calculator    170 Calendar    171 Accessing the Calendar    171 Calendar Views    171 Accessing a Full Month    174 Viewing a Specific Date    175 Creating an Appointment    175 Customizing Your Calendar’s Contents    181 The To-Do List    182 Camera    188 Taking a Picture    188 Adjusting the Zoom    189 Photo Settings    189 Video Mode    191 Turning Off the Video Light    193 Viewing Your Pictures    194 Adding a Picture to Your Favorites    194 Viewing Your Favorite Pictures    195 Sorting Pictures by Date    196 Deleting a Picture    196 Putting Pictures on Your SkyDrive    197 Uploading a Picture to SkyDrive    197 Sharing Your Pictures    198 Configuring the Camera’s Configuration Settings    199 Internet Explorer    200 Browsing the Web    200 Zooming a Page    201 Adding a Page to Your Favorites    201 Accessing Your Favorites List    202 Removing a Page from Your Favorites    202 Accessing Your Browsing History    203 Tabbed Browsing    203 Sharing a Web Page    204 Adding a Page to the Start Screen    205 Internet Explorer Settings    206 Marketplace    207 The Marketplace Interface    207 Application Updates    208 Updating an Application    209 Finding New Applications    210 Viewing an Application    211 Installing an Application    212 Installing an App Through the Zune Software    214 Removing an App    215 The Zune Marketplace    215 6  Microsoft Office Mobile.    219 Accessing Microsoft Office    220 Making Office Accessible from the Start Screen    221 The Microsoft Office Screens    222 One Note    222 Creating a New One Note Document    223 Giving Your One Note Document a Title    223 Opening One Note Documents    224 Deleting a One Note Document    225 Pinning a Document to the Start Screen    226 Creating a Numbered List    226 Creating a Bullet List    227 Adding Pictures    228 Adding Audio    228 Adding a To-Do List    229 Controlling Indention    230 Formatting One Note Text    231 Saving a One Note Document    232 Sharing a One Note Document    232 Excel    233 Creating a New Spreadsheet    233 Adding Data to a Spreadsheet    234 Adding a Comment to a Cell    234 Viewing a Comment    236 Viewing All Comments    236 Searching a Spreadsheet    237 Selecting Cells    237 Viewing Cell Text    238 Freezing a Pane    239 Applying Formatting Options    240 Sorting a Column    241 Multilevel Sorting    242 Filtering Cell Contents    243 Undo and Redo    244 Charting    244 Accessing Charts and Sheets    245 Saving a Spreadsheet    245 Sharing a Spreadsheet    246 Fitting Text    246 Hiding Columns    247 Auto Sum    247 Word    248 Creating a New Word Document    248 The Microsoft Word Interface    249 Copy and Paste    250 Applying Text Effects    251 Locating Text Within a Document    252 Adding a Comment    253 Viewing a Comment    253 Documents with Multiple Comments    254 Sending the Document    255 Saving the Document    256 PowerPoint    258 Opening a PowerPoint Document    258 Viewing PowerPoint Slides    259 Viewing a Specific Slide    260 Adding Notes to a Slide    260 Viewing Slide Notes    260 Editing a Slide    261 Saving the Document    263 Sending the Document    264 Locations    265 Phone    266 Office 365    266 SharePoint    267 SkyDrive    270 Changing Office Mobile Settings    271 7  XBOX Gaming    273 Accessing the XBOX Live Hub    273 Connecting an XBOX Live Account    275 Joining XBOX Live    275 Using an Existing XBOX Live Account    277 The XBOX Live Hub    279 Creating or Editing Your XBOX Live Profile    280 Adjust Your Privacy Settings    282 Customizing Your Avatar    285 Achievements    288 Friends    289 Accessing Your Friends List    290 Sending Messages to Your Friends    295 Finding a New Game    296 Installing a Game    298 Playing a Game    300 Rating and Reviewing a Game    301 Uninstalling a Game    302 8  The Phone    305 Making a Phone Call    306 Calling Your Contacts    307 Ending a Call    308 The Speaker Phone    308 Muting a Call    309 Accessing the Keypad    309 Missed Calls    310 Accessing Your Voice Mail    311 Conference Calling    313 Answering a Call    315 Call Waiting    316 Changing Ringtones    316 Using Custom Ringtones    318 Talking Caller ID    320 Call History    320 International Assist    322 SIM Security    322 Enabling SIM Security    323 How SIM Security Works    323 Airplane Mode    326 Enabling Airplane Mode    326 Bluetooth    327 Pairing Your Phone with a Bluetooth Device    327 SMS Text Messaging    329 Reading a Text Message    329 Replying to a Text Message    330 Sending a New Text Message    330 Sending a Text Message to a Contact    331 Sending a Picture Through a Text Message    333 Sending a Picture from the Camera    335 Text Conversations    336 Delivery Confirmation    340 Group Text    341 9  Search    343 The Search Button    343 Call History    344 Contact Search    346 Searching for a Contact    346 Bing Search    347 Conducting a Bing Search    347 Searching by Voice    348 Bing Music    350 Bing Vision    351 Searching with Internet Explorer    353 Search Engines    353 Adding a Search Engine to the Start Screen    354 Working with Suggested Sites    355 The Address Bar    356 Maps    358 Getting Directions    360 Finding Yourself    364 Search    364 Searching for a Destination    365 Clearing Map History    368 Documents    369 Searching for a Document    369 Searching Email    370 Setting the Search Language    371 Deleting Search History    371 10  Social Networking.    375 The People Hub    375 Profile Information    377 Viewing a Profile    378 Adding a Contact    379 Editing a Profile    380 Information Stored in a Profile    380 Deleting a Contact    382 Searching for a Contact    383 Finding a Contact Quickly    383 Pinning a Contact to the Start Screen    384 Linking Contacts    385 Merging Contacts    385 Adding a New Group    387 Changing a Group’s Membership    388 Renaming a Group    389 Pinning a Group to the Start Screen    389 Deleting a Group    390 Facebook Integration    390 Connecting to Facebook    390 Enabling Facebook Chat    391 Configuring Social Network Settings    392 Viewing a Wall Post    393 Writing on a Friend’s Facebook Wall    396 Pictures in Facebook    396 Viewing a Friend’s Facebook Albums    398 Accessing Albums from the Pictures Hub    398 Viewing All Recent Facebook Photos    399 Viewing Your Own Wall    399 Facebook Chat    403 Twitter    405 Configuring Your Twitter Account    405 Sending a Tweet    406 Checking Your Tweets    406 Responding to a Tweet    407 Retweeting    407 LinkedIn    408 Accessing LinkedIn Content    409 Responding to a LinkedIn Post    409 Posting a Message    410 The Feeds Filter    411 The Me Tile    412 Notifications    412 Index    415  

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Brien Posey is a seven-time Microsoft MVP with two decades of IT experience. Prior to becoming a freelance technical writer, Brien served as CIO for a national chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities.He has also worked as a network administrator for some of the nation’s largest insurance companies and for the Department of Defense at Fort Knox.   Since going freelance in 2001, Brien has become a prolific technical author. He has published many thousands of articles and numerous books on a wide variety of IT topics (primarily focusing on enterprise networking). In addition to his writing, Brien has provided consulting services to clients all over the world and occasionally speaks at various IT conferences.   When Brien isn’t busy writing, he enjoys traveling to exotic places around the world with his wife,Taz.Together they have visited more than 50 countries. In fact, a portion of this book was written during an expedition to Antarctica. Some of Brien’s other personal interests include scuba diving, aviation, and shredding waves in his Cigarette boat.  

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