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"find people" dialog cannot find in outlook 2003, only express?
Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to
outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want...
John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Hi John,
I cannot add addtional fields in the "In:" field using Advanced find If you can inform me on how to add multiple items in the In: field would be much appreciated. I tried holding the ctl key ... shift key.. but without any success.... there should be a way so please help. Thanks, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want... John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Stan:
Have you tried the Advanced Tab? You can add whatever fields you want in there. BTW, if and/or when you finally get it working, and if it is a search you think you'll do on a regular basis, you can save the search parameters and then easily run it again and again. I put some of my favorite searches in the shorcut menu for quick and easy use... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, I cannot add addtional fields in the "In:" field using Advanced find If you can inform me on how to add multiple items in the In: field would be much appreciated. I tried holding the ctl key ... shift key.. but without any success.... there should be a way so please help. Thanks, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want... John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Hi John,
Thank you... that works... but too laborious.. there's got to be a dialog as 'find people' in outlook express Take Care, Stan --- "JohnC" wrote: Stan: Have you tried the Advanced Tab? You can add whatever fields you want in there. BTW, if and/or when you finally get it working, and if it is a search you think you'll do on a regular basis, you can save the search parameters and then easily run it again and again. I put some of my favorite searches in the shorcut menu for quick and easy use... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, I cannot add addtional fields in the "In:" field using Advanced find If you can inform me on how to add multiple items in the In: field would be much appreciated. I tried holding the ctl key ... shift key.. but without any success.... there should be a way so please help. Thanks, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want... John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Stan:
What are you searching for? Maybe there is a better/quicker way to do it... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, Thank you... that works... but too laborious.. there's got to be a dialog as 'find people' in outlook express Take Care, Stan --- "JohnC" wrote: Stan: Have you tried the Advanced Tab? You can add whatever fields you want in there. BTW, if and/or when you finally get it working, and if it is a search you think you'll do on a regular basis, you can save the search parameters and then easily run it again and again. I put some of my favorite searches in the shorcut menu for quick and easy use... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, I cannot add addtional fields in the "In:" field using Advanced find If you can inform me on how to add multiple items in the In: field would be much appreciated. I tried holding the ctl key ... shift key.. but without any success.... there should be a way so please help. Thanks, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want... John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Hi John,
Here's the deal.. if you look at the outlook express 'find people' dialog, you will see that one can do a multiple search criteria ... e.g. having the dialog up, you can choose any number of 5 different fields (name,e-mail,address,phone,other) that is shown. Sooo, if you have a half dozen contacts to reach, but in some cases you only remember one of the fields for each one of them... not a problem using the 'find people' dialog its all in front of you.... but for outlook 2003 as you have seen, one must keep shifting back to the advanced tab, if you remember only a different criteria for each of the six contacts. Does outlook 2003 have a 'find people' dialog ? (I don't think so) If not, can we import the executable code from express to outlook 2003? Finally, to me microsoft, at present, has taken a backward step by eliminating the 'find people' dialog in outlook 2003. I appreciate in the help you have provided today! Take Care, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Stan: What are you searching for? Maybe there is a better/quicker way to do it... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, Thank you... that works... but too laborious.. there's got to be a dialog as 'find people' in outlook express Take Care, Stan --- "JohnC" wrote: Stan: Have you tried the Advanced Tab? You can add whatever fields you want in there. BTW, if and/or when you finally get it working, and if it is a search you think you'll do on a regular basis, you can save the search parameters and then easily run it again and again. I put some of my favorite searches in the shorcut menu for quick and easy use... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, I cannot add addtional fields in the "In:" field using Advanced find If you can inform me on how to add multiple items in the In: field would be much appreciated. I tried holding the ctl key ... shift key.. but without any success.... there should be a way so please help. Thanks, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want... John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Stan:
Have you turned on the "Find" box in Outlook? In my Contacts folder, I tried searching for every one of the five choices from the OE box (Name, Email, Address, Phone, Other) and they all worked. I just put in whatever snippet of text I wanted, relating to one of those choices, and up came the appropriate contacts. I'm not sure if you can search on multiple criteria, but how often do you need that? The point is, you don't have to specify which field it is, as in OE, you just put the konwn data in the search box and Outlook finds the corresponding contacts. To me that seems simpler than the OE box. You could also download the beta MSN search bar and do indexed searches of your whole OL file (as well as the rest of your computer) right from the XP task bar. I pretty much use that all the time now. Aside from all of that, I don't believe OL has an OE style Find People box. If one of the above procedures won't work, then you'll need to use Advanced Find. John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, Here's the deal.. if you look at the outlook express 'find people' dialog, you will see that one can do a multiple search criteria ... e.g. having the dialog up, you can choose any number of 5 different fields (name,e-mail,address,phone,other) that is shown. Sooo, if you have a half dozen contacts to reach, but in some cases you only remember one of the fields for each one of them... not a problem using the 'find people' dialog its all in front of you.... but for outlook 2003 as you have seen, one must keep shifting back to the advanced tab, if you remember only a different criteria for each of the six contacts. Does outlook 2003 have a 'find people' dialog ? (I don't think so) If not, can we import the executable code from express to outlook 2003? Finally, to me microsoft, at present, has taken a backward step by eliminating the 'find people' dialog in outlook 2003. I appreciate in the help you have provided today! Take Care, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Stan: What are you searching for? Maybe there is a better/quicker way to do it... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, Thank you... that works... but too laborious.. there's got to be a dialog as 'find people' in outlook express Take Care, Stan --- "JohnC" wrote: Stan: Have you tried the Advanced Tab? You can add whatever fields you want in there. BTW, if and/or when you finally get it working, and if it is a search you think you'll do on a regular basis, you can save the search parameters and then easily run it again and again. I put some of my favorite searches in the shorcut menu for quick and easy use... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, I cannot add addtional fields in the "In:" field using Advanced find If you can inform me on how to add multiple items in the In: field would be much appreciated. I tried holding the ctl key ... shift key.. but without any success.... there should be a way so please help. Thanks, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want... John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Hi John,
I'm in the contacts - microsoft outlook control menu screen There is a 'find' in the advanced toolbar ...is that what you are referring to: "turned on the "Find" box in Outlook" ?? I cliked on find then part of a valid phone number...a bogus message "no items found" appears. Can you provide step x step instructions in getting to turning on find, if this is not the same find you are referring to ? I also downloaded per your suggestion the msn beta toolbar. How do you do indexed searches for outlook data ? Please provide some added step x step details Thank you for your help in advance. Take Care, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Stan: Have you turned on the "Find" box in Outlook? In my Contacts folder, I tried searching for every one of the five choices from the OE box (Name, Email, Address, Phone, Other) and they all worked. I just put in whatever snippet of text I wanted, relating to one of those choices, and up came the appropriate contacts. I'm not sure if you can search on multiple criteria, but how often do you need that? The point is, you don't have to specify which field it is, as in OE, you just put the konwn data in the search box and Outlook finds the corresponding contacts. To me that seems simpler than the OE box. You could also download the beta MSN search bar and do indexed searches of your whole OL file (as well as the rest of your computer) right from the XP task bar. I pretty much use that all the time now. Aside from all of that, I don't believe OL has an OE style Find People box. If one of the above procedures won't work, then you'll need to use Advanced Find. John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, Here's the deal.. if you look at the outlook express 'find people' dialog, you will see that one can do a multiple search criteria ... e.g. having the dialog up, you can choose any number of 5 different fields (name,e-mail,address,phone,other) that is shown. Sooo, if you have a half dozen contacts to reach, but in some cases you only remember one of the fields for each one of them... not a problem using the 'find people' dialog its all in front of you.... but for outlook 2003 as you have seen, one must keep shifting back to the advanced tab, if you remember only a different criteria for each of the six contacts. Does outlook 2003 have a 'find people' dialog ? (I don't think so) If not, can we import the executable code from express to outlook 2003? Finally, to me microsoft, at present, has taken a backward step by eliminating the 'find people' dialog in outlook 2003. I appreciate in the help you have provided today! Take Care, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Stan: What are you searching for? Maybe there is a better/quicker way to do it... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, Thank you... that works... but too laborious.. there's got to be a dialog as 'find people' in outlook express Take Care, Stan --- "JohnC" wrote: Stan: Have you tried the Advanced Tab? You can add whatever fields you want in there. BTW, if and/or when you finally get it working, and if it is a search you think you'll do on a regular basis, you can save the search parameters and then easily run it again and again. I put some of my favorite searches in the shorcut menu for quick and easy use... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, I cannot add addtional fields in the "In:" field using Advanced find If you can inform me on how to add multiple items in the In: field would be much appreciated. I tried holding the ctl key ... shift key.. but without any success.... there should be a way so please help. Thanks, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want... John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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Stan:
There is a little search box on one of the toolbars that says in a light font "Type a contact to find". That will only search contact names, email addresses, and companies (if that is what you are searching on it is quite useful). In OL2003 either do Ctrl-E or go Tools - Find - Find. This opens a little find strip below the toolbars. In contacts, that find will search most of the fields in a contact record. I think that the beta MSN Toolbar search defaults to indexing and searching OL if you have it installed. If not, you can go into its options and enable it. It will also index and search OE... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, I'm in the contacts - microsoft outlook control menu screen There is a 'find' in the advanced toolbar ...is that what you are referring to: "turned on the "Find" box in Outlook" ?? I cliked on find then part of a valid phone number...a bogus message "no items found" appears. Can you provide step x step instructions in getting to turning on find, if this is not the same find you are referring to ? I also downloaded per your suggestion the msn beta toolbar. How do you do indexed searches for outlook data ? Please provide some added step x step details Thank you for your help in advance. Take Care, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Stan: Have you turned on the "Find" box in Outlook? In my Contacts folder, I tried searching for every one of the five choices from the OE box (Name, Email, Address, Phone, Other) and they all worked. I just put in whatever snippet of text I wanted, relating to one of those choices, and up came the appropriate contacts. I'm not sure if you can search on multiple criteria, but how often do you need that? The point is, you don't have to specify which field it is, as in OE, you just put the konwn data in the search box and Outlook finds the corresponding contacts. To me that seems simpler than the OE box. You could also download the beta MSN search bar and do indexed searches of your whole OL file (as well as the rest of your computer) right from the XP task bar. I pretty much use that all the time now. Aside from all of that, I don't believe OL has an OE style Find People box. If one of the above procedures won't work, then you'll need to use Advanced Find. John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, Here's the deal.. if you look at the outlook express 'find people' dialog, you will see that one can do a multiple search criteria ... e.g. having the dialog up, you can choose any number of 5 different fields (name,e-mail,address,phone,other) that is shown. Sooo, if you have a half dozen contacts to reach, but in some cases you only remember one of the fields for each one of them... not a problem using the 'find people' dialog its all in front of you.... but for outlook 2003 as you have seen, one must keep shifting back to the advanced tab, if you remember only a different criteria for each of the six contacts. Does outlook 2003 have a 'find people' dialog ? (I don't think so) If not, can we import the executable code from express to outlook 2003? Finally, to me microsoft, at present, has taken a backward step by eliminating the 'find people' dialog in outlook 2003. I appreciate in the help you have provided today! Take Care, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Stan: What are you searching for? Maybe there is a better/quicker way to do it... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, Thank you... that works... but too laborious.. there's got to be a dialog as 'find people' in outlook express Take Care, Stan --- "JohnC" wrote: Stan: Have you tried the Advanced Tab? You can add whatever fields you want in there. BTW, if and/or when you finally get it working, and if it is a search you think you'll do on a regular basis, you can save the search parameters and then easily run it again and again. I put some of my favorite searches in the shorcut menu for quick and easy use... John "stanb" wrote: Hi John, I cannot add addtional fields in the "In:" field using Advanced find If you can inform me on how to add multiple items in the In: field would be much appreciated. I tried holding the ctl key ... shift key.. but without any success.... there should be a way so please help. Thanks, Stan "JohnC" wrote: Have you tried using Advanced Find? All the fields you could possibly want... John "stanb" wrote: Trying to find a multiple field search dialog in outlook 2003 similar to outlook express's "find people" dialog. It seems, outlook 2003 only offers a single field search criteria.... rather than the more robust outlook express's "find people" dialog. Can one build an "find people" dialog for outlook 2003 ? or somehow be copied from outlook express ? Please help. |
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