Contact finding facility

[Guest afdoughty]

I have over 1,500 contacts in Outlook sync'ing to my Smartphone.

On my smartphone I can search for a contact by their name. But if I can only remember the company name but can't remember the person's name of the person, I am unable to find the contact.

How do I get my smartphone to search for contacts by searching for text "XYZ" in all contact data, not just the name field?

:?:

Andrew

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

I don't think you can, thhe only option you have is to use the filter option so

you can divide your contacts into business, misc or personal and do a search for contacts that way.

[Guest darrelle]

Currently the SPV will only run it's search through the field marked as 'file as' in Outlook so there could be scope for a little App here if someone wants to write one.

I personally add an extra bit on the important ones i.e. "name (company)" etc even though you have a separate company field, then select this in file as and it will find the company or the name when you search, however I have 300 contacts so your going to be busy with 1500 !!! ;)

There are some freebie apps I beleive that allow some global changes on the PC side (I don't have them but have hear5d of them), you may be able to do a global reformat and then re-sync.

If not, good luck with the typing!! :x

Darrell

[Guest madu]

I think you can set the files as to be in "Last, First (company)" format. All that in PC Outlook settings...