> On Monday, May 14, 2007 12:34 PM Vincent wrote:

> 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!