Telephone Book

Telephony / Telephone Book

You can use the telephone book in various ways: The telephone book is available in the telephone menu on any FRITZ!Fon cordless telephone. On other telephones you can use the quick-dial numbers saved in the telephone book to place calls. And with the phone dialer you can even use the telephone book on the computer.

If you have different FRITZ!Fon cordless phones, you can use a different telephone book on each FRITZ!Fon. For this you can configure multiple telephone books in your FRITZ!Box.

Setting Up a New Telephone Book

You can set up local telephone books and online telephone books in the FRITZ!Box.

Instructions: Setting Up a Local Telephone Book

An entire local telephone book is saved in the FRITZ!Box.

  1. Select "Telephony / Telephone Book" in the user interface.
  2. Click the "New telephone book" link.
  3. Enter a name for the new telephone book.
  4. Select the "Create as new" option.

    In the default setting the new telephone book is empty. To transfer the entries from an already existing telephone book, enable the "Copy existing telephone book" setting and select a telephone book.

  5. Under "Telephone Assignment", select the FRITZ!Fon cordless telephones with which you would like to use the telephone book. The telephone assignment feature is only available for FRITZ!Fon cordless telephones.
  6. Click on "OK".

Instructions: Setting Up an Online Telephone Book

After it has been set up in the FRITZ!Box, the online telephone book is available on your FRITZ!Fon cordless telephones. The online telephone book is available in the FRITZ!Box and synchronized with your contacts in the internet at regular intervals.

Configuring Google Contacts as a Telephone Book

Setting Up an Online Telephone Book (1&1, GMX, WEB.DE)

Synchronizing Online Telephone Books

An online telephone book configured in the FRITZ!Box is synchronized with your telephone book in the Internet at regular intervals. You can also start synchronization at any time with a click of the mouse.

For comprehensive information, click here: Synchronizing Online Telephone Books.

Creating a Telephone Book Entry

Rules

  • In the first telephone book you can configure quick-dial numbers (00 - 99) and vanity codes ("ANNA", for example) to telephone book entries. This way you can dial telephone numbers more quickly; see Telephone book entry.

Creating a Telephone Book Entry

Here is how to create a new telephone book entry:

  1. Select "Telephony / Telephone Book".
  2. If you use multiple telephone books, click "Switch Telephone Book" to select a telephone book.
  3. Click "New Entry".
  4. Set up the telephone book entry. For comprehensive information, click here: Telephone Book Entry
  5. Click "OK" to save it.

Saving and Restoring a Telephone Book

The local telephone books can be saved in a file (XML format). With the XML file you can restore the telephone book in the same FRITZ!Box or transfer it to another FRITZ!Box.

Instructions: Saving and Restoring a Telephone Book

Saving and Restoring a Telephone Book

Using Click to Dial