OL98: How to Quickly Search for a Contact

ID: Q179772

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SUMMARY

You can quickly find a specific contact in Microsoft Outlook 98 by typing the first few characters of the Contact key. When you do this, you move near the contact in question. This article describes how to do this.

MORE INFORMATION

You can search for a contact from the Card views or from the Phone List view of the Outlook folder.

Searching for a Contact

To search for a contact, follow these steps:

1. In the Contacts folder, point to Current View on the View menu, and 

   click Address Cards, Detailed Address Cards, or Phone List.
2. Sort the Contacts on the field by which you want to search: 

    a. On the View menu, point to Current View, and click Edit Current
       View.

    b. On the View Summary dialog box, click Sort.

    c. In the Sort Items By list, click the field by which you want to
       search.

    d. Click Ascending and click OK.

    e. Click OK to return to the Outlook view.
3. If you chose Phone List view in step 1, clear the Allow In-cell 
   Editing option:

    a. On the View menu, point to Current View and click Edit Current View.

    b. Click Format.

    c. In the Rows section, click to clear the Allow In-cell Editing
       check box and click OK.

    d. Click OK to return to the Outlook view.
4. Type the first few characters of the search field.

Outlook goes to the first Contact record matching those characters.

Additional query words: 

Keywords          : kbdta
Version           : WINDOWS:
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: February 11, 1999