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The Pastoral Contact field on the Interest File dialog allows you to designate a pastor on your staff who is designated as the one who will maintain primary contact with the interest. To make an entry in this field, simply begin typing in the name of the pastor. If he/she has been entered before, the field will recognize it and will display the name entered before. You can either continue typing or just press TAB to accept the entry and move to the next fields.

This is a "history list" field, meaning that it will remember all the unique choices that are entered. Once a choice has been entered, the drop-down menu will display the item, and it can be selected from the menu. Or, if you begin to type in the entry, if it finds a similar entry on the list already, you will be shown. If there is one, you won't have to complete typing the entry; just press Tab to keep the entry and move on.

The top 4 items on the menu are the most recently used items, and the items under the top 4 are all the items on the list.

To modify the list, you can either double-click within the Pastoral Contact field itself, or click the Preferences button below and select Pastoral  Contact from the list of preferences you can set.

When the History List Maintenance dialog appears, you can add a new item by typing it in the box up above and then clicking the Save to List button, you can click on an item on the list and press Del to remove it, you can clear all items, insert a blank line, or sort the items all with a single button click. You can even drag-and-drop to re-order the list according to your needs.