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Edit phone number category

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twoten
twoten
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In Android contacts I can edit the category for a phone number to anything I like. This is useful because if I have a company with a couple of different contacts I use the contacts name. This saves my having multiple entries for the same company. When I sync this with Thunderbird contacts the changes are reflected. The problem I have is when entering contacts directly in Thunderbird I can select one of the categories e.g. Work, home, work fax, other; but I can't I can't define my own category. Would it be possible to have this a s a feature?

In Android contacts I can edit the category for a phone number to anything I like. This is useful because if I have a company with a couple of different contacts I use the contacts name. This saves my having multiple entries for the same company. When I sync this with Thunderbird contacts the changes are reflected. The problem I have is when entering contacts directly in Thunderbird I can select one of the categories e.g. Work, home, work fax, other; but I can't I can't define my own category. Would it be possible to have this a s a feature?

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Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
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Try addon extension: MoreFunctionsForaddressBook https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/morecols-en.html download is located at the bottom of that page.

How to install: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/installing-addon-thunderbird

twoten
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Thanks for the suggestion. It's a nice extension but unfortunately doesn't solve the problem.