Find names in the Address Book - Outlook

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Find names in the Address Book

Applies to: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

Show Find names using Find a contact on the Standard toolbar

In the Find a contact box on the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.), type the name of the contact (contact: Person, inside or outside of your organization, about whom you can save several types of information, such as street and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and Web page URLs.) you want to find. Microsoft Outlook will search all the available address books, including any you have added.
You can enter a partial name (such as Judy L), first or last name, "display as" name, e-mail alias, and company name. To quickly open a contact you have previously searched for, click the Find a contact arrow, and then click a name.

Show Find names in the Address Book dialog box

On the Tools menu, click Address Book.
In the Show names from the list, click the address book you want to search for names.
In the Address Book dialog box, on the Tools menu, click Find, and then type the name for which you are searching.

Notes

Depending on the address book you select from the Show names from the list, you can type additional search information in the Find dialog box, such as the person's alias or department name.
If you are searching an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): A protocol that provides access to Internet Directories.) Internet Directory (Internet Directory: Storage place for information such as names, organizations, departments, countries, and locations. Typically, Internet Directories are used to find e-mail addresses that are not in a local address book or a corporate-wide directory.) for an e-mail address, you have the option of searching for a name by what character the name begins with or by what characters the name contains. Click either Begins with or Contains.