Problem:
SMS Messages on Windows Mobile 6.1 - cannot Forward or Save a SMS text
message.
Forwarding a text message is impossible directly, but there is a work
around.
Saving SMS cannot be done, unless one of you knows how and if you then
please tell.

With HTC Touch HD Windows Mobile 6.1 the SMS text messages appear as an
email conversation, which is a good idea, but for some stupid reason it
means I cannot select individual messages to forward. I also cannot select
a message and Save It To "Jokes" folder, for example. It's been half
developed, or it's bugged.

When clicking on the message I want to use, if I keep my stylus pressed the
menu pops up with Copy or Select All, that's it. Clicking on Menu shows
Forward as greyed out. There is no option to Save To.

Why?

*** How to get round this with a complicated and slow trick ***

You have to click on the sender's number/name within the text message
conversation, this opens Contacts at their name/number. Close Contacts.
When it returns to the message the single message you are interested in is
now highlighted a different colour to the rest of the conversation. Now you
can select and forward it.

But still no option to SAVE the message. How am I supposed to save SMS's I
want to keep, like Jokes?

Definitely a problem, at least on HTC Touch HD, which looks fairly standard
but might not be. Can other's with Windows Mobile 6.1 see if they can Save
or Forward text messages?

Forward an SMS can be done from the list of messages by a tap-and-hold on
the desired message. It is not greyed out there.

Regarding Save, I have never seen this option on previous versions. I will
check.

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Helio Diamant
MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
Editor - PocketPCFreak.com



"Derek" <nothanks@nospamthanks.com> wrote in message
news:e3Z2VBEXJHA.556@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Problem:
> SMS Messages on Windows Mobile 6.1 - cannot Forward or Save a SMS text
> message.
> Forwarding a text message is impossible directly, but there is a work
> around.
> Saving SMS cannot be done, unless one of you knows how and if you then
> please tell.
>
> With HTC Touch HD Windows Mobile 6.1 the SMS text messages appear as an
> email conversation, which is a good idea, but for some stupid reason it
> means I cannot select individual messages to forward. I also cannot
> select a message and Save It To "Jokes" folder, for example. It's been
> half developed, or it's bugged.
>
> When clicking on the message I want to use, if I keep my stylus pressed
> the menu pops up with Copy or Select All, that's it. Clicking on Menu
> shows Forward as greyed out. There is no option to Save To.
>
> Why?
>
> *** How to get round this with a complicated and slow trick ***
>
> You have to click on the sender's number/name within the text message
> conversation, this opens Contacts at their name/number. Close Contacts.
> When it returns to the message the single message you are interested in is
> now highlighted a different colour to the rest of the conversation. Now
> you can select and forward it.
>
> But still no option to SAVE the message. How am I supposed to save SMS's
> I want to keep, like Jokes?
>
> Definitely a problem, at least on HTC Touch HD, which looks fairly
> standard but might not be. Can other's with Windows Mobile 6.1 see if
> they can Save or Forward text messages?
>