email addresses

[jcmclennan]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Email Client: pop

When I am in Entourage and click on my address book and type in a name from my address book in the search box nothing comes up. How do I correct this?

 

[Diane Ross]

When I am in Entourage and click on my address book and type in a name from my
address book in the search box nothing comes up. How do I correct this?

Do you have Spotlight enabled in Entourage Preferences?

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[Barry Wainwright]

Do you have Spotlight enabled in Entourage Preferences?

Which search box? The little rectangular one, or the curved
'spotlight-style' one in the menubar?

If it's the rectangular 'quick-filter' search box, this will only search
the displayed information, so it will search display names if they are
included in your contact info, but not email addresses. You also must
make sure the drop-down next to this quick-filter box is set to 'name
contains'.

If you mean the 'spotlight search box' in the Entourage window toolbar,
then try searching for the same name in the system spotlight search box
(command-space should bring that up). If it shows up there, then it has
been properly indexed.