filter outlook contacts to search

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I am using the contact portion of outlook to keep track of my sales contacts.
My question is how do I search all of the outlook contacts to find a
specific word? The search funtion only seems to search the first tab of the
contacts field. I want to be able to search all tabs, messages that I have
written in the activities field, etc... Does anyone know how to do that? I
have the Microsoft Office Bible, and it doesn't seem to help.
 
Thank-you Sue, that does help a little bit. I still can't seem to figure out
how to get lookout to search individual fields that I have created in the
contact tabs/forms area.
 
I would expect it to search all fields. Is it not doing that? Do you have a
test case we can try?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I can email you my test contact form if you have an email address you would
like me to send it to you.
 
No, I just want you to tell us how to reproduce your results. So you're
using a custom form? Are its fields defined in the folder or just in the
contact form?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I believe just in the contact form.

Sue Mosher said:
No, I just want you to tell us how to reproduce your results. So you're
using a custom form? Are its fields defined in the folder or just in the
contact form?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
Click to expand...
 
Please check. It may make a difference. Look on the All Fields tab under
User-Defined Fields in Folder.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I can not seem to find a all fields tab under user-defined fields in Folder.
The field that I want to search is under the user defined tab in the contact
form. I am not sure how to look for the user-defined field in a folder.
 
Open an item stored in that folder. Look on the All Fields page. Use the
drop-down list to switch from Frequently Used Fields to User-definied Fields
in Folder. If you don't see your fields there, add them with the New button.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Okay, I was looking at the user defined fields before. The fields I created
are all listed in the user defined fields. It is just that anything that I
type in one of those fields, does not seem to be picked up when I try to do a
search.
 
Okay, I was looking at the user defined fields before. The fields I created
are all listed in the user defined fields. It is just that anything that I
type in one of those fields, does not seem to be picked up when I try to do a
search.
Click to expand...

So after a little more testing it looks like I can search for fields that
are on the general tab, but I can't seem to be able to search for information
in any of the other tabs.
 
There are two "user-defined fields" lists in All Fields. The User Defined
Fields in Folder is the one that tells you what custom fields are available
for a search in that folder.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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