To find a contact, click the Find Contacts button
Once clicked, enter in the search field the name of the contact
Then, click the one of buttons under the
search field that suits the kind of search you need.
-
Quick Find - will have the software
quickly find the contacts from all the contacts in the database and will
automatically have those searched contacts as currently selected
contacts
-
Quick Find from Selected - will search only for contacts from the currently
selected contacts
-
Omit - this option is
different from the other options in a way that instead of having the searched
contacts as currently selected contacts, it will OMIT them from the
database. Note that omitting means temporarily deleting them from the
currently selected contacts. NOT DELETING THEM totally.
-
Expand - once you search
for contacts using the Find Contacts button, by default it will have the
searched contacts as the currently selected contacts. This means that if you
display the contacts in a list, the searched contacts will only be the one
displayed. Using the EXPAND button while searching for contacts, the searched
contacts WILL BE ADDED to the currently selected contacts on
screen.
-
Find From Clipboard -
will search for contacts
based on what you have in your clipboard
-
Full Find - in full find, you can
have several options to filter the contacts that you want from all the
contacts in your database.
Once FULL FIND is clicked,
you will be directed to the FULL FIND SCREEN where all information about the
contact is displayed.
To use FULL FIND:
1. Click the Clear Fields
button to clear out all the fields from the previous Full Find search.
2. Enter on particular contact information fields that you want
to filter the search for contacts. For example, if you want to search for all
the contacts that is from Texas, enter TX on the State field.
3.
Once you have set your contacts to search, you will then have to select how to
search for them. At the upper right part of the FULL FIND screen, there are
several Find button as shown in the figure
below.
Find From All If you want to
find contacts from all the contacts in your database
Find From Selected
If you want to find contacts from the currently selected contacts on screen
Extend To Selected If you want to add the searched contacts to the
currently selected contacts on screen
Omit From Selected If you
want to omit the searched contacts