""... Imagine if you lost your phone. How long would it take you to reproduce the list? ..." You used to ask for business cards and store them on your desk in a nice little container, cross referencing them in your filofax. I had never owned a mobile till this year. I used to keep a backup in a small notebook till I lost that. My phone doesn't use anything but bluetooth and so the only way to get access to the data from the not very practical a) "memorise each phone number by heart" to the dumb b) read it off the screen or geeky c) "backup the simcard at regular intervals the hi-tech way" ~ http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to...... but thats probably a bit beyond what most would tolerate. In the end I just asked the hand full of people I do ring their number again. But for 250+ contacts it would be best use an online service to store them & print a couple of lists. But it does beg the question, do you really need to keep all 250 phone numbers in the first place?" - Peter Renshaw