Actually in our office, that is almost a 100% of the time the way we do it.
They are going to send an email to a myriad of people. So they pick new
email message, choose to, and then need to search for the people that they
want. Because we have 81 parishes, and 100 priests, and 10 schools, and
dozens of other groups of people, we need to be able to have a good way of
organizing them so that they can choose the people that they want to send the
email to. That is what we are trying to figure out. They can't be just
alphabetized, because you might not know WHO the principal of a school is,
but you know you need to find the principal in a named parish. If you have a
better way of doing it, that I could educate my staff that is exactly the
answers that I am looking for. I am trying to implement categories, but the
ability to search for the different fields is huge here.

"Russ Valentine" wrote:

You would never use the address book view of your Contacts for searching.
You search in the Contacts Folder.
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Russ Valentine
"JuliaB" wrote in message
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Hi, I recently upgraded my Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007. I do not use
exchange, but I do use Office Calendar (by Lookout Software) to share
calendars and contacts. From what I've seen on the internet, I expected
when
creating a new message, to be able to search for contacts, by clicking
To:,
and use the Advanced Find to be able to search for other fields within a
contact, like company or title or city. However, my advanced find window,
has only one field, that is "Find names containing". Compared to other
examples from what I've seen on the internet, where you can search in the
Display Name, First Name, last name, Title, Alias, Company, etc. Also, if
I
try to choose More Columns radio dial button to have it search for a key
word
in a different field it appears to do nothing. Do I have to have Exchange
to
be able to search in other fields of a contact? Thanks

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