find within contact notes

[Henry Vanston]

I put key words into the contact notes field to help find a name. For
instance, right now I am looking for the guy that installs windows. I put
"window" in his contact note. Find used to find words in the notes field, but
no longer does. I am using Outlook 2007, having upgraded from 2003 a while
ago. I don't know if the feature disappeared wiht 2007 or after I upgraded. I
also checked the advanced search & don't find "notes" as an option for which
to set criterion.
Thanks for your in sight.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/contactsearch.htm

 

[Henry Vanston]

Thanks for suggestion. I tried the below suggestion from that page, but
without success. I did the search on my PPC, found the contact & verified
that the key word was in the notes. I have trieds several other test
searches, but my O2007 does not appear to be searching within the notes
field. Other thoughts?

 

[Henry Vanston]

ps. What do you mean by old & new contacts?

Problem: Instant search in the Contact folder does not appear to find all items that match the search. If you have a mix of old and new contacts, Instant Search returns new items which meet the search criteria but not older items.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

old and new: created or modified dates. I don't know how old is old, but all
the new ones (in my case, all with 2008 dates) are found when I search a
folder.

since you know who it is from the ppc, search for the name. That should
always work. Or use advanced find.

 

[Henry Vanston]

Thanks. I did not know about advanced find, thinking that expanding the query
builder was all we got.

I did advanced find. The search worked only if I selected the advanced tab
and added a criteria "notes contains <search word>". The search did not work
from the contacts tab with <search word> in "frequently used text fields"

My apologies for not rating your answer. I can't get the screen to work (I
had to delete cookies & temp files to even get to this reply screen.)