Searching contacts by categories in Outlook 2003

[lesviator]

I am trying to search for contacts in my Contacts folders that contain two
specific categories together, I.E., the contacts should belong to "Category
A" AND "Categrory B." However, the Options/Advanced Find/Advanced tab seems
to only accept searches on the basis of "Categoriy A" OR "Category B," which
defeats the purpose of the search by producing a less narrowly defined
spectrum of results.

Any way around this?

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

On that dialog use the third tab, and add the categories there.

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Am Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:03:00 -0800 schrieb lesviator:

 

[lesviator]

The "Advanced" tab? That's exactly where I am defining the criteria:
Advanced/Field button/Frequently used fields/Categories/Add To List, then
the same for another category.

The resulting search works as "category" OR "category". There doesn't seem
to be any way to implement it as "category" AND "category".

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Don't create a second search criterion. That wouldn't work. String your
categories with the word "AND" between them in a single criterion.

 

[lesviator]

Thanks! That did it.

Don't create a second search criterion. That wouldn't work. String your
categories with the word "AND" between them in a single criterion.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

The "Advanced" tab? That's exactly where I am defining the criteria:
Advanced/Field button/Frequently used fields/Categories/Add To List, then
the same for another category.

The resulting search works as "category" OR "category". There doesn't seem
to be any way to implement it as "category" AND "category".