Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook
(maybe
over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts
to be
useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the
contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe
Smith's
brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe
Smith
and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up,
and of
course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes
section,
Joe Smith's brother.

in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search
function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search
function
to find anything at all in Contacts!!

this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it
is
very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people.

i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have
inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that
might
have changed some important setting?

i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance!
_______________
It was suggested that i use Advanced Find and this is the problem i'm
finding after much searching from that angle:

In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you
go to
Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search.
the
pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search
shows
multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find.

when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that
window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is
More
Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced.

the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is
no
such option for searching the "Notes" section.

the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with
a
Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is
NO
"notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu
that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or,
alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently
Used
Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both
sound
correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but
"Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the
bottom where
i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that
"Note"
is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes.

in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various
Fields
options but they do not work.

i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am
really
stumped.

any help would be most appreciated.

thank you!

Replied to your duplicate post.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Vincent" wrote in message
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Gentlemen/Ladies: i've been a long time user of Microsoft Outlook
(maybe
over 10 years) and have long found the Notes section of the Contacts
to be
useful. i would put in keywords that would help me find/remember the
contact by, i.e. John Smith, in the Notes section, i might write Joe
Smith's
brother, or Computer expert. Typically, i would simply type in Joe
Smith
and every contact where anywhere containing Joe Smith would show up,
and of
course, John Smith would show up as well since i wrote in his Notes
section,
Joe Smith's brother.

in the past couple of weeks, for some reason, i haven't used my search
function much. but for the past 3 days, i cannot get the Search
function
to find anything at all in Contacts!!

this is a KEY functionality for me. i have over 1500 contacts and it
is
very useful for me to be able to zero in on certain people.

i've tried researching this for hours to no avail. i might have
inadvertently hit a key to the left or right of the keyboard and that
might
have changed some important setting?

i would greatly appreciate any help. thank you so much in advance!
_______________
It was suggested that i use Advanced Find and this is the problem i'm
finding after much searching from that angle:

In Contacts "mode", you have all the contacts on the right pane. you
go to
Tools at the top, the dropdown menu's 2nd option is Instant Search.
the
pull out menu to the right when you hover over the Instant Search
shows
multiple options where the last one is Advanced Find.

when you select Advanced Find, you get a new pop up window. in that
window, there are 3 tabs. the first tab is Contacts, the 2nd tab is
More
Choices, the 3rd tab is Advanced.

the 1st tab (Contacts) does not seem to work for me at all as there is
no
such option for searching the "Notes" section.

the 3rd tab, Advanced, asks you to start with defining a "Field" with
a
Field dropdown menu. However, when you drop down that menu, there is
NO
"notes" field. The option called "All Note Fields" has a pull out menu
that allows you to select Contact, maybe that's the right one? or,
alternatively, one other Field in the field dropdown is "Frequently
Used
Fields" where you can choose either Contacts or simply Notes. both
sound
correct to me. please realize that "Note" is probably incorrect but
"Notes" is probably correct since the section in Contacts at the
bottom where
i put all my notes is actually called "Notes" plural. I suspect that
"Note"
is that other Outlook functionality called Note for taking notes.

in any case, i've tried using that Advanced find and tried various
Fields
options but they do not work.

i really really need this function badly for what i do daily and am
really
stumped.

any help would be most appreciated.

thank you!